Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21603-fragnesia 3 15 May 2026, 17:24

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 19:56.522 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.192
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 1:17.397
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.654
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.284
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.872
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 8.657
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.011
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.340
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.353
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.320
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.387
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.021
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28.750
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 7.522
And the system is very low on memory 3.511
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.160
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.663
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.392
And I free up some memory 0.789
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.550
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.625
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 7.941
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And all tps features are active 1.079
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.134
When I disable the first tps feature 2.549
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.369
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.895
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.923
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 7.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.405
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 7.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 3.135
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.890
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
35.549
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 7.188
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.998
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.182
When I write some files expected to persist 1.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.380
# 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" 11.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.385
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 7.157
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 11.179
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.287
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.649
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.300
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.420
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.109
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.063
Tags: @product
36.916
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.448
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.072
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:44.347
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 8.387
When I enable persistence 12.577
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.916
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.543
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.480
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.225
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
When I cold reboot the computer 8.717
And the computer reboots Tails 36.293
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.293
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.177
Given I enable persistence 6.915
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.212
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.661
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:3.763
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 8.170
# 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 27.861
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.456
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.414
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
37.210
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 8.488
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.684
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.224
And all notifications have disappeared 7.741
When I delete the persistent partition 2.656
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:21.988
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 7.687
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.516
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.461
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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41.364
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 8.053
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.682
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.549
And all notifications have disappeared 7.603
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.243
And all tps features are enabled 0.956
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.411
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 29.570
And I enable persistence 19.440
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.194
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.643
And persistence is enabled 1.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.970
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 7.262
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.166
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.499
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.427
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.757
When I enable persistence 6.580
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.903
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 7.663
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.182
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.174
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.346
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.171
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.457
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 7.470
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.744
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.360
And all notifications have disappeared 9.114
# 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" 0.145
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.079
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.262
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.971
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 7.570
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.545
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.764
When I log in to a new session 11.159
And all notifications have disappeared 8.405
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.336
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000