Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 18 22 Oct 2026, 05:52

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 22:37.824 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.129
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.013
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.545
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.656
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.322
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 8.228
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.205
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.708
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 8.904
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.693
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 5.199
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.300
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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28.391
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 7.926
And the system is very low on memory 4.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.566
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.337
And I free up some memory 0.426
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.690
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.225
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 8.472
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 7.852
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.579
When I disable the first tps feature 2.478
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.662
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.197
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.129
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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12.738
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 enabled and logged in 7.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.259
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 7.727
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.457
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.889
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.907
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 7.527
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 11.983
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.271
When I write some files expected to persist 0.798
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.247
# 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" 11.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.007
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 20.493
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 9.859
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.220
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.673
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 12.060
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.303
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
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37.639
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.477
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.097
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.149
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.683
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.263
When I enable persistence 21.272
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.709
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.929
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.413
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.331
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.572
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.783
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 4.475
And the computer reboots Tails 31.608
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.258
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.230
Given I enable persistence 12.827
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.316
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.346
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.649
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 enabled and logged in 8.199
# 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 26.794
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.149
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.181
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.777
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 7.662
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.307
Then persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.451
And all notifications have disappeared 8.388
When I delete the persistent partition 2.652
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.519
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 7.700
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.125
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
52.714
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 7.884
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.602
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.040
And all notifications have disappeared 7.800
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.261
And all tps features are enabled 7.451
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.741
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 1:56.390
And I enable persistence 24.990
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.664
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.505
And persistence is enabled 7.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.248
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 7.269
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.513
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.594
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 8.009
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.728
When I enable persistence 12.116
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.482
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 7.763
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.236
When I try to enable persistence 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.686
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.093
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.594
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 7.651
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.049
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.080
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 7.800
And all notifications have disappeared 8.607
# 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" 0.120
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.121
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.976
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.487
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 7.723
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.617
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.117
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.495
When I log in to a new session 7.481
And all notifications have disappeared 7.724
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.131
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000