Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout 7 20 Aug 2026, 16:03

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 26:13.869 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.377
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 1:24.581
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.794
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.583
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 9.179
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.901
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.237
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.971
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 9.305
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.858
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.600
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.933
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 8.105
And the system is very low on memory 4.857
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.363
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.115
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.458
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.429
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.840
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 8.780
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And all tps features are active 8.353
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.992
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.529
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.661
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.247
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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14.385
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 8.552
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I disable the first tps feature 2.961
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.041
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.786
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 7.649
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I disable the first tps feature 3.025
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.885
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.003
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 7.810
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.096
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.600
When I write some files expected to persist 1.022
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.529
# 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" 11.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.683
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.744
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.181
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.292
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.485
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.247
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.324
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089
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41.106
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 8.670
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.071
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.924
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.086
When I enable persistence 23.904
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.818
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.805
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.485
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.426
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.586
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.490
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 5.903
And the computer reboots Tails 35.185
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.343
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 15.077
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.150
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.068
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:15.129
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 8.835
# 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 29.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.451
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.017
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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40.995
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 8.382
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.448
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.950
And all notifications have disappeared 9.331
When I delete the persistent partition 2.574
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.632
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 8.200
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.569
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.589
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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1:0.633
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 8.479
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.430
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.230
And all notifications have disappeared 8.244
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.257
And all tps features are enabled 9.181
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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5:1.753
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 4:12.692
And I enable persistence 29.951
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.053
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.616
And persistence is enabled 10.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.955
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.902
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.340
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.626
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 9.526
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.640
When I enable persistence 13.615
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.268
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 8.332
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.703
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.233
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.220
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.602
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 8.065
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.589
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.105
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.627
And all notifications have disappeared 8.317
# 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" 0.323
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.206
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.223
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.675
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 8.198
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.682
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.379
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.924
When I log in to a new session 7.347
And all notifications have disappeared 7.700
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.278
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000