Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 6 23 Aug 2026, 13:35

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 24:2.544 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.434
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 1:20.683
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.709
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.232
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.008
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.888
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.001
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.226
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.862
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 8.676
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.409
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.232
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.666
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.638
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.998
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
32.975
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.196
And the system is very low on memory 5.216
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.297
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.535
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.110
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.417
And I free up some memory 0.677
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.473
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.027
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 8.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 9.929
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.492
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.797
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.240
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
26.973
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 21.374
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.122
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.583
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.975
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 8.270
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.611
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.906
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.754
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 8.132
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 9.461
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.986
When I write some files expected to persist 1.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
# 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" 11.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.812
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 8.298
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 9.543
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 5.271
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.928
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.079
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
39.110
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.741
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.823
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.469
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 9.609
When I enable persistence 22.743
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.606
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.881
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.291
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.468
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.338
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.087
When I cold reboot the computer 6.038
And the computer reboots Tails 35.883
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
Given I enable persistence 14.498
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.232
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.678
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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2:6.462
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 8.776
# 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 29.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.284
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.455
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
41.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.492
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.377
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.690
And all notifications have disappeared 8.324
When I delete the persistent partition 2.656
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.598
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 8.865
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.868
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.554
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
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1:0.154
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 8.844
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.463
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.292
And all notifications have disappeared 8.797
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.353
And all tps features are enabled 8.536
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:48.842
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:1.902
And I enable persistence 29.767
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.758
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.516
And persistence is enabled 8.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.212
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 7.619
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.961
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.995
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 9.103
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.517
When I enable persistence 13.780
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.545
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 8.564
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.821
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.498
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.216
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.290
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.584
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 8.258
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.407
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 8.899
And all notifications have disappeared 7.555
# 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" 0.138
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.121
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.473
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.149
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.837
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 8.450
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.948
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.492
When I log in to a new session 7.826
And all notifications have disappeared 7.064
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.517
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000