Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21250-forbid-modify-self-memory 1 17 Aug 2026, 12:28

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 23:55.849 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.816
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.211
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.281
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.888
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 8.830
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.744
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.207
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.993
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.257
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.464
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.554
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.006
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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32.457
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 8.340
And the system is very low on memory 4.996
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.485
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.727
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.421
And I free up some memory 0.830
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.484
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.057
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.048
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And all tps features are active 7.682
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.956
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.875
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.696
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.997
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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14.404
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 8.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.087
When I disable the first tps feature 2.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.088
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 2.695
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.040
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.949
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 8.293
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.534
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.955
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.874
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 8.261
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.535
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.069
When I write some files expected to persist 1.325
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.577
# 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" 12.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.379
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 8.235
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.666
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.549
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.197
And I capture all network traffic 0.013
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 11.978
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.381
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
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39.179
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.347
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.132
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.315
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.405
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 8.596
When I enable persistence 24.639
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.439
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.806
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.247
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.281
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.561
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.576
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 6.080
And the computer reboots Tails 33.379
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.404
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
Given I enable persistence 13.039
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
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 7.352
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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2:14.153
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.081
# 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 27.310
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.643
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.399
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.880
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 8.861
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.989
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.363
And all notifications have disappeared 7.596
When I delete the persistent partition 2.592
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.053
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 8.823
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.319
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.610
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
58.932
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 8.665
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.483
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.692
And all notifications have disappeared 8.298
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.276
And all tps features are enabled 8.218
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.118
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 2:3.260
And I enable persistence 28.857
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.850
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.636
And persistence is enabled 10.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.374
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 7.584
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.266
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.024
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 8.243
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.000
When I enable persistence 13.572
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.861
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 7.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.648
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.884
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.088
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.108
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.153
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 8.272
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.954
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.425
And all notifications have disappeared 8.354
# 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" 0.107
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.081
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.146
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.201
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.550
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 8.103
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.245
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.262
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.352
When I log in to a new session 7.599
And all notifications have disappeared 7.773
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.284
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000