Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_late-patch-improvements 2 13 Nov 2026, 00:10

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 22:36.635 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.940
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 1:16.348
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.179
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.638
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.459
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 8.395
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.599
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.203
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.847
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 8.544
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.001
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.255
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.526
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.138
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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28.208
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.018
And the system is very low on memory 4.142
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.497
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.077
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.420
And I free up some memory 0.458
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.379
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.172
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 8.131
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And all tps features are active 7.852
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.363
When I disable the first tps feature 2.418
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.714
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.242
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.042
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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12.934
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 7.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.041
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.024
When I enable the first tps feature 2.353
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.957
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 7.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.437
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.899
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.303
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 7.598
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.830
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.014
When I write some files expected to persist 0.918
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.448
# 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" 11.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.694
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 7.473
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.272
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.408
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.448
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.443
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.359
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.106
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36.087
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 8.400
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.062
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.815
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.875
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 8.324
When I enable persistence 20.801
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.118
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.157
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.352
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.559
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.794
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 5.780
And the computer reboots Tails 31.832
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 11.941
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.121
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.039
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:5.788
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 8.099
# 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 27.347
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.130
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.310
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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37.355
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 8.332
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.738
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.284
And all notifications have disappeared 8.113
When I delete the persistent partition 2.578
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.555
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 8.273
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.312
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.728
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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53.995
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 7.854
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.723
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.371
And all notifications have disappeared 8.421
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.190
And all tps features are enabled 7.022
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:34.775
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 1:53.709
And I enable persistence 25.887
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.830
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.538
And persistence is enabled 7.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.816
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 7.240
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.147
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.302
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 8.471
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.823
When I enable persistence 12.426
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.032
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.933
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 8.390
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.259
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.465
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.163
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.114
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.504
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 7.970
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.661
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.019
When I log in to a new session 7.752
And all notifications have disappeared 7.680
# 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" 0.094
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.056
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.124
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.087
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.126
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 7.700
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.885
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.804
When I log in to a new session 8.199
And all notifications have disappeared 7.017
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.136
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000