Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21636-yelp-from-debian 2 02 Jun 2026, 17:48

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 21:15.658 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.696
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.388
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.247
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.241
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.130
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 8.946
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.817
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.342
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 8.971
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.906
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.646
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.061
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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30.726
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 7.693
And the system is very low on memory 3.846
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.668
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.617
And I free up some memory 0.875
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.667
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.835
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 8.965
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 1.401
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.258
When I disable the first tps feature 2.780
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.388
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.416
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.127
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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13.514
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 7.872
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.115
When I disable the first tps feature 2.646
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.718
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 7.355
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
And I disable the first tps feature 3.083
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.934
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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41.132
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 7.341
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.479
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.196
When I write some files expected to persist 1.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.832
# 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" 12.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.528
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 7.262
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.328
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.075
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.487
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.675
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.036
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39.997
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 8.572
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.253
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:50.072
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 8.564
When I enable persistence 14.545
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.227
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.797
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.404
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.527
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.984
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.214
When I cold reboot the computer 6.880
And the computer reboots Tails 38.186
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 7.351
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.209
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.145
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:13.867
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 8.512
# 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 30.610
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.006
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.665
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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41.375
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 9.114
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.582
Then persistence is disabled 0.168
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.179
And all notifications have disappeared 7.989
When I delete the persistent partition 2.865
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:25.464
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 8.506
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.277
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.368
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.016
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43.763
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 8.130
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.785
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.158
And all notifications have disappeared 8.041
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.881
And all tps features are enabled 1.481
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
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 31.126
And I enable persistence 21.292
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.356
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.571
And persistence is enabled 1.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.618
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.955
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.664
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.594
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.317
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.437
When I enable persistence 6.982
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.690
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.446
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.427
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.337
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.811
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 7.868
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.898
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.376
And all notifications have disappeared 9.511
# 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" 0.534
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.472
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.467
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.579
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.002
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.781
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.425
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.087
When I log in to a new session 11.961
And all notifications have disappeared 9.479
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.857
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000