Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21798-fix-new-identity-test 1 29 Sep 2026, 18:39

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 24:22.861 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.685
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 1:20.906
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.532
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.257
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.626
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 8.745
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.878
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.868
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.939
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.656
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.524
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.022
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.169
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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30.274
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 8.527
And the system is very low on memory 4.530
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.721
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.199
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.462
And I free up some memory 0.622
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.939
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:8.660
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 8.749
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And all tps features are active 8.378
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.692
When I disable the first tps feature 2.585
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.841
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.845
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.273
Then all tps features but the first one are active 18.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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13.802
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 8.479
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.491
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 8.511
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.001
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.800
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
52.375
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 9.341
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 10.562
And I take note of which tps features are available 12.217
When I write some files expected to persist 1.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.623
# 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" 12.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.553
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 8.013
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.302
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.303
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.474
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 12.692
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.383
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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42.016
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 8.793
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.846
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.332
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 9.012
When I enable persistence 23.247
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.452
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.121
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.362
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.306
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.455
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.072
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 6.288
And the computer reboots Tails 35.470
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.355
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 15.242
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.108
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.303
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.025
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
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2:7.549
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 8.476
# 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 29.839
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.368
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.682
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 17.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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39.597
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.143
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.978
Then persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.866
And all notifications have disappeared 7.456
When I delete the persistent partition 2.822
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.399
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 8.307
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.494
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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59.394
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 8.768
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.727
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.611
And all notifications have disappeared 8.827
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.282
And all tps features are enabled 8.389
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.581
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 2:3.319
And I enable persistence 29.415
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.493
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.552
And persistence is enabled 7.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.065
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.502
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.901
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.868
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 8.922
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.917
When I enable persistence 14.464
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.604
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 8.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.690
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.778
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.293
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.221
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.277
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 9.160
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.643
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 9.272
And all notifications have disappeared 7.220
# 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" 0.226
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.136
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.296
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.162
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.835
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 8.476
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.725
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.303
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.331
When I log in to a new session 9.238
And all notifications have disappeared 8.627
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.093
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000