Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 4 21 Aug 2026, 16:16

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 24:58.567 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:47.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:32.505
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.550
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.261
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.560
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.552
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.743
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.262
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.357
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.207
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.466
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.067
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
33.683
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.125
And the system is very low on memory 5.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.201
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.499
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.254
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.414
And I free up some memory 0.631
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.406
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.622
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.655
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And all tps features are active 9.607
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.029
When I disable the first tps feature 2.543
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.615
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.917
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.728
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
13.853
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.133
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 2.725
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.612
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.699
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.235
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.429
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.870
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.974
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.996
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.003
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.308
When I write some files expected to persist 1.287
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.495
# 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" 12.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.400
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.646
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.440
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.671
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.971
And Tor is ready 11.056
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.436
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
50.822
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.522
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.204
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.646
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.416
When I enable persistence 27.087
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.580
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.777
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.271
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.177
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.396
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 6.137
And the computer reboots Tails 35.086
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.207
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.309
Given I enable persistence 16.039
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.095
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.359
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.932
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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2:17.417
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.454
# 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 29.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.355
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.218
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
39.695
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.361
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.000
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.416
And all notifications have disappeared 7.814
When I delete the persistent partition 2.707
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.970
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.594
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.412
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
58.394
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.600
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.535
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.878
And all notifications have disappeared 8.366
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.386
And all tps features are enabled 7.703
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 2:7.257
And I enable persistence 30.174
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.537
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.535
And persistence is enabled 9.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.789
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.689
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.204
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.391
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.955
When I enable persistence 14.372
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.512
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.530
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.572
When I try to enable persistence 1.471
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.053
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.285
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.157
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.459
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.712
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.464
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 0.044
When I log in to a new session 10.201
And all notifications have disappeared 7.261
# 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" 0.171
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.293
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.749
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.217
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.624
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.368
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.051
When I log in to a new session 7.715
And all notifications have disappeared 9.768
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.440
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000