Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6099 28 Jan 2026, 22:33

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 25:3.517 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.653
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.466
And I update APT using apt 7.722
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.436
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.647
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.077
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.698
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.241
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.879
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.989
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 33.129
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.533
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.892
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.932
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.732
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.697
And the system is very low on memory 11.793
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.903
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.797
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.160
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.730
And I free up some memory 0.979
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.614
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.826
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.009
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.402
And all tps features are active 1.485
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.964
When I disable the first tps feature 2.567
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.807
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.081
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.154
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.566
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.115
When I disable the first tps feature 2.596
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.420
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 7.866
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.485
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.883
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.715
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.425
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.212
When I write some files expected to persist 1.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.442
# 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" 12.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.597
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.757
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.124
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.467
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.943
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.573
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.328
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
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1:13.223
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.966
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.192
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.659
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 44.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:14.364
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.167
When I enable persistence 32.775
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.354
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.791
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.291
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.555
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.802
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
When I cold reboot the computer 10.567
And the computer reboots Tails 38.810
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.262
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.204
Given I enable persistence 7.203
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.287
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.527
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:32.414
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.262
# 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 40.613
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.819
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.815
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
45.272
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 8.063
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.064
Then persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.730
And all notifications have disappeared 9.151
When I delete the persistent partition 2.735
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.750
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.664
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.413
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
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48.214
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.719
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.128
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.928
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.443
And all notifications have disappeared 8.220
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 1.130
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.953
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 42.578
And I enable persistence 31.434
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.592
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.572
And persistence is enabled 1.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.650
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 7.312
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.695
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.357
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.743
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.363
When I enable persistence 7.255
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.390
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 7.820
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.604
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.732
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.461
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.138
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.542
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.687
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.593
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 13.288
And all notifications have disappeared 8.782
# 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" 0.174
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.199
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.352
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.871
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.233
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.679
When I log in to a new session 11.541
And all notifications have disappeared 9.016
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.384
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000