Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 21 25 Oct 2026, 05:56

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 22:36.847 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:55.506
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 1:15.508
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.443
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.651
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.881
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 8.255
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.435
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.481
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 8.455
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.438
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.290
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.712
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.552
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 7.720
And the system is very low on memory 5.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.338
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.071
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.444
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.304
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.084
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 8.175
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 7.359
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.533
When I disable the first tps feature 2.440
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.368
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.334
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.184
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
Tags: @product
12.795
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 7.442
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.451
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.878
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 7.506
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.042
And I disable the first tps feature 2.462
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.761
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.531
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 7.398
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.889
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.369
When I write some files expected to persist 0.820
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.679
# 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" 11.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.533
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 7.468
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 9.053
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.104
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.421
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.742
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.071
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
38.117
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 8.254
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.332
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.128
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 21.690
When I enable persistence 20.914
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.371
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.567
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.294
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.281
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.520
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.888
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.103
When I cold reboot the computer 5.770
And the computer reboots Tails 32.354
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.283
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
Given I enable persistence 12.086
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.135
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.492
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.269
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 8.006
# 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 27.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.203
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.982
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.434
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 7.724
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.940
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.272
And all notifications have disappeared 8.516
When I delete the persistent partition 2.650
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.445
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 7.964
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.206
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.020
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
52.797
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 7.874
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.466
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.141
And all notifications have disappeared 8.017
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.220
And all tps features are enabled 7.678
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.468
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 1:57.159
And I enable persistence 25.264
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.268
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.475
And persistence is enabled 7.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.164
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 7.427
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.345
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.747
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 7.888
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.018
When I enable persistence 12.078
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.021
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 7.935
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.938
When I try to enable persistence 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.958
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.262
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.080
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.727
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 7.593
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.244
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 7.309
And all notifications have disappeared 7.755
# 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" 0.259
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.052
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.278
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 7.542
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.679
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.258
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.914
When I log in to a new session 6.878
And all notifications have disappeared 6.822
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.117
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000