Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6004 12 Dec 2025, 12:40

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 29:50.863 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:26.136
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:6.029
And I update APT using apt 5.871
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 13.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.280
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.301
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.911
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.814
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.558
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.893
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.548
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.653
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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37.361
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.377
And the system is very low on memory 1.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.191
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.320
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.151
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.646
And I free up some memory 0.970
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.888
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:50.053
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.163
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.503
And all tps features are active 2.754
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.510
When I disable the first tps feature 3.228
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.429
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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15.785
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.160
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.592
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.957
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.007
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.640
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.118
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.068
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 9.098
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.576
When I write some files expected to persist 1.522
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.712
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 18.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.608
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 10.477
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.768
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.154
And I capture all network traffic 0.015
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 14.148
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
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44.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.136
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.041
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.214
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.173
When I enable persistence 10.980
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.891
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.365
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.613
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
When I cold reboot the computer 8.774
And the computer reboots Tails 40.421
Given I enable persistence 12.487
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.629
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.514
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:22.615
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.272
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 20.764
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.858
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.728
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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40.785
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.392
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.558
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.483
And all notifications have disappeared 9.879
When I delete the persistent partition 2.947
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.272
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.627
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.309
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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49.414
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.631
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.671
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.758
And all notifications have disappeared 10.236
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.593
And all tps features are enabled 2.854
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:57.563
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:18.178
And I enable persistence 23.669
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.680
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.705
And persistence is enabled 2.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.209
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.833
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.080
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.510
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 20.619
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.666
When I enable persistence 34.663
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.958
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.527
When I try to enable persistence 1.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.699
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.332
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.350
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.737
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.393
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.922
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I log in to a new session 13.190
And all notifications have disappeared 11.583
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.263
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.688
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.358
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.114
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.487
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.732
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.202
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.399
When I try to enable persistence 1.360
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.885
When I log in to a new session 13.004
And all notifications have disappeared 10.207
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.396
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000