Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21529-test-suite-vs-secure-boot-key-expiry 9 05 May 2026, 23:11

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 20:42.850 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.521
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.417
And I update APT using apt 5.968
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.261
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.200
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.655
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.375
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.416
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.190
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.427
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.390
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.087
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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28.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.145
And the system is very low on memory 4.018
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.181
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.472
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.136
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.390
And I free up some memory 0.915
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.945
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.399
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.094
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And all tps features are active 1.152
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.073
When I disable the first tps feature 2.655
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.963
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.652
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.480
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.181
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.061
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.560
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.014
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.523
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.850
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.240
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.131
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 16.091
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.237
When I write some files expected to persist 1.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.741
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.525
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.225
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.406
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.907
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.266
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.894
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.442
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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37.637
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.445
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.708
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.943
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.674
When I enable persistence 13.671
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.895
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.231
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.253
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.548
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.583
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 10.073
And the computer reboots Tails 36.259
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 6.839
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.095
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.380
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:2.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.054
# 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 26.557
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.419
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.160
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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36.455
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.647
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.152
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.850
And all notifications have disappeared 7.615
When I delete the persistent partition 2.695
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.320
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.443
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.358
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.230
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.074
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.469
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.046
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.505
And all notifications have disappeared 7.489
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 0.923
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 29.296
And I enable persistence 20.772
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.423
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.636
And persistence is enabled 1.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.069
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.370
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.122
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.064
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.881
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.791
When I enable persistence 6.640
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.233
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.588
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.060
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.449
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.484
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.021
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.432
And all notifications have disappeared 9.055
# 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" 0.197
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.567
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.505
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.126
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.728
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.725
When I log in to a new session 10.865
And all notifications have disappeared 8.728
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.343
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000