Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21170-upgrade-trixie-13.5 2 18 May 2026, 16:56

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 20:57.641 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.022
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.224
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.620
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.268
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.090
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.266
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.886
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.548
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.425
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.546
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.762
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.062
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.253
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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29.318
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.285
And the system is very low on memory 4.435
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.355
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.674
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.441
And I free up some memory 0.819
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.109
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:32.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And all tps features are active 1.205
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.019
When I disable the first tps feature 2.526
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.740
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.250
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.077
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.582
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.506
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.269
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 2.558
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.466
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.839
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.360
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.206
When I write some files expected to persist 1.316
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.463
# 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" 12.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:44.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.217
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.024
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.531
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.213
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.393
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.347
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.035
Tags: @product
42.189
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.690
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.881
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.119
When I enable persistence 13.590
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.774
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.630
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.352
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.827
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.218
When I cold reboot the computer 10.319
And the computer reboots Tails 38.445
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.293
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.170
Given I enable persistence 7.135
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.250
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.367
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:8.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.806
# 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 29.564
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.218
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.600
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
41.303
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.052
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.493
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.584
And all notifications have disappeared 7.916
When I delete the persistent partition 2.695
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.958
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.737
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.365
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.552
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
41.781
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.086
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.087
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.586
And all notifications have disappeared 8.090
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.306
And all tps features are enabled 1.093
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.694
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 31.982
And I enable persistence 20.453
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.115
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 1.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.436
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
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 7.209
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.562
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.391
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.632
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.620
When I enable persistence 7.242
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.739
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.730
When I try to enable persistence 1.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.406
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.493
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.327
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.231
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 11.699
And all notifications have disappeared 10.188
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.426
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.279
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.815
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.052
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.219
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.317
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.032
When I log in to a new session 11.425
And all notifications have disappeared 8.512
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.267
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000