Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout 6 20 Aug 2026, 15:10

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 24:15.782 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.681
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 1:23.360
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.177
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.335
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.691
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 8.761
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.575
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.826
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 10.099
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.925
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.405
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.759
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.891
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 9.238
And the system is very low on memory 5.001
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.911
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.356
And I free up some memory 0.705
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.322
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.360
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 8.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 8.606
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.616
When I disable the first tps feature 2.438
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.014
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.666
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.296
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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14.159
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 7.933
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.108
When I disable the first tps feature 3.208
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.924
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.077
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.575
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.095
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.871
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.387
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 13.822
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.691
When I write some files expected to persist 1.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.509
# 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" 12.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.090
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 7.982
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.480
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.537
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.326
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 12.010
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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43.201
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.361
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.347
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.595
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 9.207
When I enable persistence 24.202
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.843
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.456
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.421
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.345
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.639
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.618
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
When I cold reboot the computer 5.920
And the computer reboots Tails 35.505
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.322
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.116
Given I enable persistence 13.701
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.195
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.791
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
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2:10.617
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 8.723
# 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 31.555
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.351
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.362
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
43.140
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 8.877
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.437
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.410
And all notifications have disappeared 9.439
When I delete the persistent partition 2.647
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.342
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 8.553
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.776
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.705
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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1:3.035
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 9.203
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.334
And all notifications have disappeared 8.628
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.285
And all tps features are enabled 8.758
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.942
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:4.293
And I enable persistence 26.733
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.068
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.600
And persistence is enabled 8.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.001
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 7.521
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.890
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.042
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 9.338
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.166
When I enable persistence 13.751
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.036
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 9.052
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.591
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.129
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.228
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.119
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.046
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 8.412
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.661
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 9.713
And all notifications have disappeared 7.270
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.085
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.252
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.121
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.282
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 8.999
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.526
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.291
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.745
When I log in to a new session 8.778
And all notifications have disappeared 7.599
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.174
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000