Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_post-7.15.1-release-process 4 25 Oct 2026, 19:19

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 22:45.979 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.531
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.763
And I update the APT lists using apt 34.993
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.906
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.387
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 8.775
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.372
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.273
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 8.682
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.426
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.094
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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28.084
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 8.051
And the system is very low on memory 4.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.021
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.363
And I free up some memory 0.504
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.722
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.626
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 8.104
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And all tps features are active 7.990
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.716
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.288
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.258
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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12.723
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 7.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.042
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.412
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.005
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 7.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.462
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.842
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.823
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 7.617
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 11.393
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.558
When I write some files expected to persist 0.896
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
# 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" 11.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.850
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 7.407
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.075
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 5.198
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.162
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.348
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.317
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
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37.179
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.158
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.059
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.421
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.989
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 8.292
When I enable persistence 20.911
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.229
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.418
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.504
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.660
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 6.019
And the computer reboots Tails 32.166
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 12.294
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.278
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.697
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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2:3.593
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 8.148
# 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 27.598
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.177
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.430
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
49.502
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 21.065
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.377
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.441
And all notifications have disappeared 8.612
When I delete the persistent partition 2.628
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.462
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 7.649
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.189
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.392
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
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52.331
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 7.987
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.264
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.312
And all notifications have disappeared 7.711
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.238
And all tps features are enabled 7.332
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:33.539
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 1:53.665
And I enable persistence 24.623
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.227
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And persistence is enabled 7.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.290
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 7.266
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.503
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.767
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 8.186
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.850
When I enable persistence 11.882
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.029
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.324
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 7.991
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.463
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.091
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.135
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.106
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.397
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 20.862
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.047
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 7.734
And all notifications have disappeared 6.744
# 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" 0.160
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.266
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 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.292
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 8.039
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.431
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.299
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.901
When I log in to a new session 7.922
And all notifications have disappeared 6.517
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.207
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000