Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21319-thunderbird-153 1 26 Oct 2026, 20:52

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 24:9.077 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.313
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 1:18.995
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.429
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.890
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.426
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.060
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.020
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.203
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.386
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 8.878
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.383
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.990
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.485
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.244
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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30.330
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 8.245
And the system is very low on memory 4.357
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.253
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.724
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.373
And I free up some memory 0.740
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.487
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.709
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 8.631
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And all tps features are active 8.731
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.028
When I disable the first tps feature 2.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.952
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.526
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.885
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.769
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 8.395
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.737
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 7.955
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 2.622
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.962
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.901
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 7.994
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 13.654
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.524
When I write some files expected to persist 1.255
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
# 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" 12.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.304
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 7.962
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 9.942
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.569
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.306
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 10.802
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
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40.084
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.157
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.170
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.804
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.933
When I enable persistence 21.439
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.987
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.175
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.448
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.392
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.514
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.213
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
When I cold reboot the computer 5.872
And the computer reboots Tails 32.982
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.368
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.168
Given I enable persistence 14.051
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.267
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.589
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
2:8.720
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 8.424
# 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 29.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.204
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.454
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
42.598
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.080
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.903
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.116
And all notifications have disappeared 9.467
When I delete the persistent partition 2.683
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.399
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 8.543
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.399
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.142
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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59.135
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 8.862
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.801
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.112
And all notifications have disappeared 7.705
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 7.809
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.485
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 2:1.826
And I enable persistence 27.380
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.536
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.506
And persistence is enabled 8.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.914
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 7.512
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.760
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.068
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 9.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.186
When I enable persistence 14.075
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.865
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.463
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.804
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.981
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.108
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.126
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.404
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 8.756
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.970
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.012
And all notifications have disappeared 7.543
# 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" 0.133
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.075
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.253
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.247
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.718
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.430
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.949
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.308
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.079
When I log in to a new session 8.015
And all notifications have disappeared 7.612
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.274
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000