Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21319-thunderbird-153 5 27 Oct 2026, 15:44

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 25:10.671 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.333
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 1:21.747
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.247
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.563
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.448
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 9.261
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.721
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.022
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 8.858
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.143
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.284
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.307
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.825
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
30.461
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 8.398
And the system is very low on memory 4.402
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.231
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.520
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.082
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.572
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.838
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:14.206
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 21.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 10.257
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.154
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.802
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.356
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.838
Then all tps features but the first one are active 11.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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13.794
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 8.365
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.513
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.850
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 8.298
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 2.523
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.812
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.767
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 7.948
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 13.298
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.747
When I write some files expected to persist 1.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.362
# 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" 12.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.741
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 8.989
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.447
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.156
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.264
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.422
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.846
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.349
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
Tags: @product
44.522
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 8.777
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.520
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.994
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 10.033
When I enable persistence 26.007
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.614
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.267
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.253
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.156
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.554
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.452
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 5.950
And the computer reboots Tails 36.157
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
Given I enable persistence 15.490
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.164
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.968
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:10.308
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 8.811
# 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 30.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.184
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.723
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
42.908
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 8.417
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.861
Then persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.256
And all notifications have disappeared 9.388
When I delete the persistent partition 2.650
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:24.970
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 8.203
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.199
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.296
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
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1:0.175
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 9.487
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.804
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.331
And all notifications have disappeared 8.301
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.294
And all tps features are enabled 8.593
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.291
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 2:5.615
And I enable persistence 28.411
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.255
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And persistence is enabled 8.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.635
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 7.694
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.331
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.612
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 8.844
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.302
When I enable persistence 16.690
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.232
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 7.938
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.440
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.794
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.140
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.887
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 8.584
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.264
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 9.216
And all notifications have disappeared 8.397
# 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" 0.181
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.162
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.204
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.355
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.505
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 8.563
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.389
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.365
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.266
When I log in to a new session 8.012
And all notifications have disappeared 7.585
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.213
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000