Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org 2 19 May 2026, 07:38

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 19:41.092 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.536
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.642
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.907
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.543
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.436
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.444
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.275
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.356
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.688
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
27.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.308
And the system is very low on memory 3.233
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.639
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.427
And I free up some memory 0.845
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.686
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.002
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 1.147
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.827
When I disable the first tps feature 2.584
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.340
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.232
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.507
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.029
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.509
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.928
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
37.917
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.135
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 8.507
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.198
When I write some files expected to persist 1.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.307
# 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" 11.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.244
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.360
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.385
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.171
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.187
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.096
Tags: @product
37.404
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.315
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.062
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.588
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:46.647
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.597
When I enable persistence 15.459
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.741
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.301
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.494
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.064
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 10.057
And the computer reboots Tails 34.404
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.220
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.174
Given I enable persistence 6.721
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.227
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:3.819
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.915
# 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 26.902
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.454
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.863
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
36.541
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.746
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.977
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.735
And all notifications have disappeared 7.966
When I delete the persistent partition 2.695
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.952
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.125
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.311
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.183
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
39.159
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.429
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.898
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.595
And all notifications have disappeared 7.647
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.285
And all tps features are enabled 1.026
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
58.663
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 28.846
And I enable persistence 18.292
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.436
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.621
And persistence is enabled 1.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.022
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 6.948
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.553
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.649
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.824
When I enable persistence 6.536
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.567
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.257
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.302
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.319
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.666
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.526
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.041
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 10.654
And all notifications have disappeared 8.351
# 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" 0.322
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.292
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.258
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.570
When I log in to a new session 10.222
And all notifications have disappeared 9.017
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000