Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 15 19 Oct 2026, 05:58

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 23:22.072 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.266
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 1:18.002
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.021
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.547
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.940
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 8.701
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.536
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.187
And persistence is disabled 0.066
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.336
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 8.610
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.862
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.368
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.867
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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29.192
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 8.096
And the system is very low on memory 4.005
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.285
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.714
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.141
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.485
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.932
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 8.328
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 7.524
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.707
When I disable the first tps feature 2.446
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.781
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.284
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.410
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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13.437
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 8.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.398
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 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.382
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
And I disable the first tps feature 2.528
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.249
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 7.587
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 11.820
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.881
When I write some files expected to persist 1.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.605
# 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" 11.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.213
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 7.627
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 9.765
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.206
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.552
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 12.294
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.084
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38.114
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 8.893
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.445
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.601
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 8.714
When I enable persistence 24.119
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.612
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.927
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.239
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.548
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.329
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 5.962
And the computer reboots Tails 32.864
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.232
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.188
Given I enable persistence 12.618
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.330
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:3.778
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 8.088
# 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 26.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.433
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
37.466
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 8.053
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.219
Then persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.980
And all notifications have disappeared 8.339
When I delete the persistent partition 2.592
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.958
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 7.949
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.575
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.212
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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53.950
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 8.094
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.035
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.017
And all notifications have disappeared 7.255
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 8.088
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.591
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 2:2.133
And I enable persistence 27.504
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.390
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.558
And persistence is enabled 8.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.214
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 7.715
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.997
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.360
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 8.555
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.715
When I enable persistence 13.856
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.970
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 8.044
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.740
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.585
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.217
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.232
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.967
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 8.230
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.005
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.085
And all notifications have disappeared 7.657
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.079
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.224
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.312
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.146
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 7.963
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.887
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.395
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.555
When I log in to a new session 8.186
And all notifications have disappeared 7.952
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.178
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000