Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_post-rm-7.11 9 21 Aug 2026, 16:13

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 24:57.005 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.850
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.329
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.511
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.693
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 9.263
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.277
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.251
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.666
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.869
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.425
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.301
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.408
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
33.434
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 8.746
And the system is very low on memory 4.850
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.462
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.600
And I free up some memory 0.681
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.766
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.642
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 8.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 9.131
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.831
When I disable the first tps feature 2.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 12.624
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.003
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.520
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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14.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.731
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.132
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 3.100
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.939
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.200
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.688
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.845
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.695
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 8.061
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.688
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.558
When I write some files expected to persist 1.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.381
# 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" 12.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.415
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 7.995
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 10.953
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.334
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.733
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 12.634
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
41.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.096
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.277
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.402
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 8.857
When I enable persistence 24.460
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.998
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.965
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.485
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.372
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.548
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.392
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 6.771
And the computer reboots Tails 35.138
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.421
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
Given I enable persistence 14.951
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.352
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.021
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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2:38.766
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 23.358
# 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 32.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.694
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.113
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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42.861
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 9.225
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.018
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.412
And all notifications have disappeared 9.054
When I delete the persistent partition 2.733
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.089
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 8.354
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.757
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.699
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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1:0.617
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 9.795
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.558
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.780
And all notifications have disappeared 8.540
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.354
And all tps features are enabled 9.092
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.421
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 2:3.610
And I enable persistence 28.199
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.854
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.599
And persistence is enabled 9.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.877
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 7.788
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.548
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.866
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 9.279
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.876
When I enable persistence 13.466
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.048
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 7.955
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.798
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.978
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.189
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.116
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.181
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.920
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 8.239
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.876
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.349
And all notifications have disappeared 7.520
# 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" 0.124
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.135
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.088
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.936
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 8.447
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.817
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.298
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.849
When I log in to a new session 8.345
And all notifications have disappeared 7.764
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.058
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000