Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_post-7.14-release-process 1 29 Sep 2026, 20:26

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 23:3.775 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.763
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 1:29.069
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.556
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.297
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.858
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 8.414
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.627
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.237
And persistence is disabled 0.069
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.087
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 8.875
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.484
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.244
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.918
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 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.883
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 8.095
And the system is very low on memory 4.331
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.224
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.312
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.083
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.403
And I free up some memory 0.435
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.956
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.517
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 8.420
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.222
And all tps features are active 7.649
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.660
When I disable the first tps feature 2.587
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.022
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.210
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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13.386
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 8.019
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.027
When I enable the first tps feature 2.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.230
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 7.736
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.480
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.859
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.538
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 7.597
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.247
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.771
When I write some files expected to persist 1.288
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.374
# 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" 11.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.182
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 8.012
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 8.348
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 5.450
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.772
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.704
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.063
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38.776
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.796
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.812
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.516
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 8.551
When I enable persistence 23.467
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.880
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.283
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.492
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.351
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.609
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.546
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 5.833
And the computer reboots Tails 32.922
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.448
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
Given I enable persistence 13.021
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.112
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.293
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.155
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.615
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 8.086
# 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 30.740
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.184
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.734
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.460
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 8.665
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.907
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.570
And all notifications have disappeared 8.272
When I delete the persistent partition 2.661
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.346
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 8.417
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.039
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.291
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.376
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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55.612
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 8.369
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.554
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.067
And all notifications have disappeared 7.846
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 7.817
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:39.047
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 1:56.098
And I enable persistence 26.939
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.598
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 7.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.735
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 7.602
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.690
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.633
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.371
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.710
When I enable persistence 14.279
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.302
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 7.952
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.876
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.397
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.082
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.350
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.228
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.162
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 8.053
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.217
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.191
And all notifications have disappeared 8.951
# 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" 0.170
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.167
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.199
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.174
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.114
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 8.227
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.427
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.393
When I log in to a new session 8.052
And all notifications have disappeared 7.695
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.023
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000