Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_migrate-vms 1 07 Oct 2026, 00:25

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 23:1.565 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.696
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 1:28.095
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.260
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.590
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.281
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 21.479
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.160
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.351
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 8.457
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.267
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.860
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.283
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.186
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.128
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.028
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 8.048
And the system is very low on memory 5.005
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.168
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.332
And I free up some memory 0.579
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.622
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.179
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 8.259
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
And all tps features are active 7.786
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.454
When I disable the first tps feature 2.466
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.657
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.507
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.683
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.216
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 7.891
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.531
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.961
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 7.548
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.480
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.771
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.867
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 7.543
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 12.376
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.579
When I write some files expected to persist 0.928
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.176
# 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" 11.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.847
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.603
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 8.222
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.324
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.558
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 10.390
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.092
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37.148
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.495
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.213
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.261
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 8.531
When I enable persistence 20.552
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.144
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.756
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.256
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.134
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.540
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.695
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 5.732
And the computer reboots Tails 31.496
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.169
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.118
Given I enable persistence 12.391
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.154
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.661
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 8.225
# 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 27.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.741
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.411
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 8.424
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.129
Then persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.521
And all notifications have disappeared 7.327
When I delete the persistent partition 2.711
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.313
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 7.914
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
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 1:1.927
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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54.471
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 8.283
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.756
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.663
And all notifications have disappeared 7.770
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 7.829
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.860
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 2:7.653
And I enable persistence 26.360
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.977
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.498
And persistence is enabled 8.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.870
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 7.278
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.054
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.422
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 8.525
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.066
When I enable persistence 12.892
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.098
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 8.120
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.702
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.089
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.129
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.212
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.212
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 7.865
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.108
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.345
And all notifications have disappeared 7.177
# 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" 0.128
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.107
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.033
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.403
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 7.722
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.355
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.239
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.764
When I log in to a new session 7.585
And all notifications have disappeared 6.682
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.208
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000