Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_post-rm-7.11 8 20 Aug 2026, 23:50

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 22:49.081 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.036
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 1:16.630
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.127
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.198
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.415
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 8.503
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.879
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.223
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.427
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 8.775
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.230
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.985
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 5.359
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.757
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.140
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
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29.704
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 8.006
And the system is very low on memory 4.606
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.654
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.442
And I free up some memory 0.487
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.131
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.123
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 8.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 8.094
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.738
When I disable the first tps feature 2.585
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.672
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.069
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.558
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 7.910
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.471
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.736
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.134
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 7.715
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.440
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.775
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.816
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.730
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.036
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.523
When I write some files expected to persist 1.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.457
# 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" 10.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.638
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 20.553
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 8.715
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.316
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.461
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.834
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
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40.086
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 8.439
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.737
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.814
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 8.518
When I enable persistence 22.165
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.869
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.437
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.226
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.433
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.383
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 6.090
And the computer reboots Tails 33.059
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.234
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.109
Given I enable persistence 12.977
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.330
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.486
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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2:4.243
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 8.382
# 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 26.964
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.531
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.167
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.876
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 8.592
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.308
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.685
And all notifications have disappeared 8.123
When I delete the persistent partition 2.777
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.519
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 8.356
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.231
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.654
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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54.854
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 8.333
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.829
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.989
And all notifications have disappeared 7.879
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.257
And all tps features are enabled 7.686
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.134
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 1:58.425
And I enable persistence 26.889
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.562
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.537
And persistence is enabled 7.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.909
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 7.673
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.753
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.071
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 8.213
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.896
When I enable persistence 12.288
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.990
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 7.883
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.234
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.804
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.143
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.356
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 7.890
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.425
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.115
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.465
And all notifications have disappeared 6.911
# 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" 0.130
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.110
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.238
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.051
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.369
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 8.110
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.982
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.706
When I log in to a new session 7.927
And all notifications have disappeared 6.994
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.168
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000