Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6006 13 Dec 2025, 12:56

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 31:2.362 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.575
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:57.333
And I update APT using apt 7.884
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.312
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.857
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 13.688
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.181
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
And persistence is disabled 0.159
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.378
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.435
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.427
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.544
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.596
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.273
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.693
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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37.890
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 11.184
And the system is very low on memory 4.653
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.327
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.402
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.540
And I free up some memory 1.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.002
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.120
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 12.930
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And all tps features are active 2.234
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.379
When I disable the first tps feature 2.714
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.865
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.755
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.761
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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16.189
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 10.347
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.816
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.799
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 10.333
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.102
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.146
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.060
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 10.410
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 40.776
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.574
When I write some files expected to persist 1.365
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.935
# 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" 17.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:59.948
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 10.197
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 10.536
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.889
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.913
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 12.498
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.359
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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50.591
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 13.186
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.191
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.868
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.871
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 13.700
When I enable persistence 20.022
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.174
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.385
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.967
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 7.809
And the computer reboots Tails 41.656
Given I enable persistence 11.683
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.466
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.656
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:27.868
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 12.599
# 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 28.999
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.182
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.754
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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49.628
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 11.461
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.376
Then persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.513
And all notifications have disappeared 10.898
When I delete the persistent partition 2.859
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.011
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 11.979
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.224
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.423
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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57.709
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 11.385
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.361
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.739
And all notifications have disappeared 10.320
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.378
And all tps features are enabled 2.265
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:5.390
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 5:24.064
And I enable persistence 26.408
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.080
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.652
And persistence is enabled 2.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.961
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 9.680
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.573
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.573
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 12.194
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.610
When I enable persistence 10.064
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.837
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 10.072
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.132
When I try to enable persistence 1.461
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.190
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.273
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.955
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 10.045
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.208
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 12.390
And all notifications have disappeared 10.931
# 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" 0.245
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.637
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.287
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.217
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.144
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.141
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.883
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.458
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.803
When I log in to a new session 12.740
And all notifications have disappeared 9.929
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.690
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000