Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 7 11 Oct 2026, 05:59

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 23:47.581 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.900
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.471
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.760
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.789
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 8.390
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.626
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.199
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.956
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 8.802
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.397
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.308
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.472
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.629
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.063
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29.546
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 8.040
And the system is very low on memory 4.209
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.676
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.083
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.370
And I free up some memory 0.493
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.402
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.284
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 8.294
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And all tps features are active 8.009
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.774
When I disable the first tps feature 2.462
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.235
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 1:4.040
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.705
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 7.840
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.289
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 2.693
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.321
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 7.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.491
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.821
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.677
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 7.828
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.773
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.786
When I write some files expected to persist 1.028
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.235
# 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" 11.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.156
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 7.682
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.271
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.248
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.316
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 10.909
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.368
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
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40.073
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.492
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.917
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.903
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 9.232
When I enable persistence 25.113
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.588
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.263
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.214
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.525
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.958
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.090
When I cold reboot the computer 6.025
And the computer reboots Tails 34.670
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.233
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 14.435
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.224
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.426
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.410
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:7.193
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 8.074
# 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 26.590
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.308
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.200
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.606
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 8.742
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.069
Then persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.740
And all notifications have disappeared 7.965
When I delete the persistent partition 2.761
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.711
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 9.012
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.393
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.972
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
57.764
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 8.064
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.035
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.349
And all notifications have disappeared 8.282
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.369
And all tps features are enabled 8.085
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.532
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 2:5.755
And I enable persistence 24.233
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.224
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.550
And persistence is enabled 7.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.777
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 7.331
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.983
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.107
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 8.403
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.443
When I enable persistence 13.285
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.582
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 7.954
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.786
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.138
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.221
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.532
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 8.197
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.612
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 9.447
And all notifications have disappeared 9.262
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.346
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.059
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.539
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.843
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.842
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.247
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.828
When I log in to a new session 7.967
And all notifications have disappeared 7.415
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.181
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000