Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21866-update-firmware-sof 2 03 Nov 2026, 20:36

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 23:29.296 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.787
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.506
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.002
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.568
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.393
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 8.655
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.789
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.108
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 8.594
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.024
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.384
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.186
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
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29.155
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 8.089
And the system is very low on memory 4.495
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.471
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.133
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.438
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.897
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.747
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 enabled and logged in 8.846
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 8.536
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.836
When I disable the first tps feature 2.871
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.657
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.078
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.057
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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13.218
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 7.788
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I disable the first tps feature 2.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.212
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 enabled and logged in 7.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.539
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.992
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.016
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.085
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.707
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.274
When I write some files expected to persist 0.891
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.167
# 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" 11.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.894
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 8.110
And the network is plugged 0.636
And Tor is ready 9.970
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.256
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.234
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.988
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.365
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.158
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38.225
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 8.488
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.720
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.583
When I enable persistence 21.777
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.812
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.252
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.339
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.426
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.051
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
When I cold reboot the computer 5.916
And the computer reboots Tails 33.758
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.318
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.259
Given I enable persistence 13.909
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
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 6.780
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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2:5.823
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 8.755
# 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 28.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.239
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.931
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
37.695
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 7.970
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.788
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.545
And all notifications have disappeared 8.218
When I delete the persistent partition 2.758
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.638
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 7.911
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.228
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.203
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
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56.205
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 8.064
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.552
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.102
And all notifications have disappeared 8.517
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.322
And all tps features are enabled 7.956
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.932
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 2:1.183
And I enable persistence 27.547
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.315
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.689
And persistence is enabled 8.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.859
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.611
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.702
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.868
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 8.129
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.502
When I enable persistence 13.650
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.728
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.015
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.275
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.542
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.336
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.256
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.163
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 7.999
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.021
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 8.200
And all notifications have disappeared 7.222
# 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" 0.138
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.167
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.118
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 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.467
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 7.818
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.897
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.290
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.657
When I log in to a new session 7.661
And all notifications have disappeared 8.095
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.082
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000