Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21319-thunderbird-153 4 27 Oct 2026, 15:47

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 24:51.209 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.488
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.727
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.608
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.967
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 9.722
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.591
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.919
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 9.065
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.412
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.903
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.823
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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30.811
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 logged in 8.721
And the system is very low on memory 4.266
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.526
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.445
And I free up some memory 0.454
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:2.750
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 enabled and logged in 8.796
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
And all tps features are active 10.738
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.627
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.536
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.037
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.113
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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14.319
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 8.382
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 3.038
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.497
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.819
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.063
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.132
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.605
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.914
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.466
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 8.447
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 12.809
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.653
When I write some files expected to persist 1.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.162
# 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" 12.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.802
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 enabled and logged in 8.160
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 9.909
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.330
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.356
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.266
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.362
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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41.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.881
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.146
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.617
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.872
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 8.871
When I enable persistence 23.095
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.819
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.354
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.429
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.387
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.613
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.216
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 5.910
And the computer reboots Tails 33.481
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.204
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.121
Given I enable persistence 13.150
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.114
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.368
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.460
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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2:9.465
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 8.332
# 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 30.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.358
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.747
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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42.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.924
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.909
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.222
And all notifications have disappeared 8.979
When I delete the persistent partition 2.985
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.152
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 9.078
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.306
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
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1:4.304
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.087
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.984
And all notifications have disappeared 8.742
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.247
And all tps features are enabled 9.581
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.004
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:5.389
And I enable persistence 28.890
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.569
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.620
And persistence is enabled 9.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.963
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.748
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.612
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.168
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 8.926
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.886
When I enable persistence 13.874
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.462
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.617
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.761
When I try to enable persistence 1.363
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.277
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.114
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.265
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.103
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.882
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 8.721
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.163
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.091
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 9.255
And all notifications have disappeared 8.392
# 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" 0.251
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.200
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.568
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.986
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 8.932
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.420
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.358
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.672
When I log in to a new session 8.503
And all notifications have disappeared 7.504
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.244
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000