Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21839-regularly-update-tails-builder-apt-snapshots 1 27 Oct 2026, 15:18

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 24:51.337 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:6.222
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 1:22.824
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.997
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.674
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.212
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 8.877
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.398
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.224
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.776
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 9.398
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.839
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.373
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.198
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
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30.190
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 8.692
And the system is very low on memory 3.967
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.732
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.158
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.474
And I free up some memory 0.514
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.406
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.776
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 8.837
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
And all tps features are active 8.874
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.792
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.002
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.510
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.893
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.633
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 7.929
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.698
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.089
When I enable the first tps feature 2.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.657
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 8.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.559
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.803
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.820
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 8.367
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 13.234
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.235
When I write some files expected to persist 1.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.375
# 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" 12.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.743
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 8.132
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.751
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.398
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.329
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 11.198
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.442
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.146
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.086
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47.352
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 9.355
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.149
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.695
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.712
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 8.724
When I enable persistence 25.397
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.958
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.618
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.604
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.987
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 5.953
And the computer reboots Tails 35.868
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.344
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.327
Given I enable persistence 14.618
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.139
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.303
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
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2:12.207
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 8.407
# 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 29.711
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.700
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.068
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.715
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 9.184
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.129
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.517
And all notifications have disappeared 8.691
When I delete the persistent partition 2.747
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.358
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 8.919
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.913
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.255
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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1:1.700
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 8.597
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.703
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.064
And all notifications have disappeared 8.432
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.229
And all tps features are enabled 8.242
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.425
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 2:0.308
And I enable persistence 27.762
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.906
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.468
And persistence is enabled 7.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.212
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 8.001
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.705
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.646
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
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.359
When I enable persistence 15.487
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.056
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 8.832
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.896
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.143
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.330
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.167
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.282
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 8.214
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.506
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 8.459
And all notifications have disappeared 7.995
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.242
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.233
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 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.634
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 8.042
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.604
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.311
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.313
When I log in to a new session 9.391
And all notifications have disappeared 6.866
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.142
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000