Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 5 09 Oct 2026, 05:57

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 24:49.512 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.660
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 1:23.012
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.045
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.713
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.415
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 8.980
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.976
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.212
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.870
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 22.547
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.342
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.583
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
31.111
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 8.813
And the system is very low on memory 4.722
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.892
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.392
And I free up some memory 0.508
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.385
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.219
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 8.813
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 8.558
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.875
When I disable the first tps feature 2.726
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.394
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.198
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.180
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.852
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 8.223
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.720
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.084
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 7.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.528
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.513
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.872
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 8.047
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 12.332
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.100
When I write some files expected to persist 0.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.226
# 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" 12.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.919
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 7.685
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 10.317
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.599
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.104
And I capture all network traffic 0.026
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 11.377
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
40.230
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 9.033
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.878
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:59.975
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 9.279
When I enable persistence 25.334
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.004
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.313
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.450
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.326
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.610
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.082
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 5.966
And the computer reboots Tails 35.391
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.351
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.164
Given I enable persistence 14.565
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.309
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.498
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.920
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 8.660
# 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 30.559
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.783
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.622
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
41.677
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 8.425
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.836
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.508
And all notifications have disappeared 8.791
When I delete the persistent partition 3.796
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.703
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 8.675
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.534
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.231
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:2.168
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 9.011
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.726
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.664
And all notifications have disappeared 8.245
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.238
And all tps features are enabled 8.544
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.721
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 1:57.536
And I enable persistence 29.271
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.086
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.544
And persistence is enabled 9.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.728
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 7.769
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.470
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.470
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 9.173
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.158
When I enable persistence 13.835
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.672
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 9.212
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.896
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.847
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.336
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.218
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.115
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.252
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.810
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 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.612
And all notifications have disappeared 7.226
# 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" 0.201
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.121
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.255
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.187
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.120
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 9.330
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.645
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.364
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.502
When I log in to a new session 8.337
And all notifications have disappeared 7.488
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.410
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000