Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21153-zstd-iuks 6 27 Jul 2026, 11:42

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 23:27.422 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.185
And I update the APT lists using apt 9.242
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.362
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.367
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.043
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.750
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.815
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.740
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
32.154
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.760
And the system is very low on memory 4.931
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.295
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.793
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.167
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.425
And I free up some memory 0.897
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.834
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.806
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.500
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And all tps features are active 6.021
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.104
When I disable the first tps feature 2.643
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.368
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.147
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.113
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
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14.351
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 3.045
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.500
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.735
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.972
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.561
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.484
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 12.900
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.220
When I write some files expected to persist 1.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.781
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:19.734
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.720
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.340
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.822
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.738
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 44.301
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089
Tags: @product
43.486
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.742
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.293
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.267
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.406
When I enable persistence 20.767
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.419
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.327
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.440
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.355
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.622
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.749
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.235
When I cold reboot the computer 6.674
And the computer reboots Tails 39.421
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.379
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 12.479
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.302
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.183
# 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 30.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.745
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.473
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
42.384
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.006
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.215
Then persistence is disabled 0.278
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.457
And all notifications have disappeared 8.326
When I delete the persistent partition 2.714
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.116
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.454
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.115
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
53.922
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.736
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.965
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.909
And all notifications have disappeared 8.374
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.294
And all tps features are enabled 5.480
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.031
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 35.083
And I enable persistence 26.723
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.007
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.643
And persistence is enabled 6.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.981
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
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 7.351
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.107
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.870
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.263
When I enable persistence 11.804
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.773
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.326
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.200
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.491
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.607
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.168
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.185
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.851
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.433
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 11.010
And all notifications have disappeared 9.881
# 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" 0.206
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.570
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.651
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.316
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.508
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.858
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.419
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.302
When I log in to a new session 11.296
And all notifications have disappeared 9.842
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.087
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000