Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21615-debian-security-updates-supersede-custom-packages 1 25 May 2026, 15:09

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 20:59.766 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.226
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 1:19.798
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.014
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.251
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.988
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.758
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.109
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.840
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 8.813
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.644
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.826
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.667
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
29.580
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 7.740
And the system is very low on memory 3.563
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.576
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.358
And I free up some memory 1.219
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.809
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.820
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 8.434
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And all tps features are active 1.302
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.100
When I disable the first tps feature 3.092
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.410
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.323
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.701
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.518
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 8.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 2.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.081
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 7.252
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I disable the first tps feature 2.647
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.937
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.307
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 7.353
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.260
When I write some files expected to persist 1.328
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.355
# 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" 12.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.978
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 7.072
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.224
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.377
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.872
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.645
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
Tags: @product
42.422
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 8.880
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.532
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.542
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.588
When I enable persistence 13.220
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.784
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.539
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.561
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.334
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
When I cold reboot the computer 8.900
And the computer reboots Tails 38.770
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.171
Given I enable persistence 8.596
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.254
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.534
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
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2:13.252
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 8.251
# 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 30.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.424
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.237
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
40.180
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 8.298
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.613
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.805
And all notifications have disappeared 8.101
When I delete the persistent partition 2.829
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.612
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 8.094
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.118
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.049
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
41.306
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 8.338
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.843
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.480
And all notifications have disappeared 7.828
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.301
And all tps features are enabled 1.097
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.094
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 30.570
And I enable persistence 19.864
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.147
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.648
And persistence is enabled 1.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.853
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 7.109
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.179
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.291
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 8.474
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.313
When I enable persistence 6.787
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.455
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 7.627
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.352
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.432
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.157
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.512
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 7.746
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.993
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.251
And all notifications have disappeared 8.894
# 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" 0.168
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.110
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.194
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.717
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.899
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 7.980
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.745
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.388
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.740
When I log in to a new session 11.338
And all notifications have disappeared 8.300
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.392
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000