Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21322-tails-testers-migration 2 28 Aug 2026, 05:04

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 26:1.950 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:45.130
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 1:30.984
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.055
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.208
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.978
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 8.823
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.216
And persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.322
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 8.711
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.558
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.760
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.218
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
29.921
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 8.173
And the system is very low on memory 4.772
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.281
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.641
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.405
And I free up some memory 0.507
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.950
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.847
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 enabled and logged in 8.734
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
And all tps features are active 8.728
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.770
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.540
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.797
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.612
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 8.015
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.556
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.596
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.370
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 7.910
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.480
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.809
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.489
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 7.802
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 10.474
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.014
When I write some files expected to persist 1.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
# 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" 11.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.084
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 8.138
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.502
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.373
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.884
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 11.405
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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52.434
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 21.682
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.315
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.637
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 8.658
When I enable persistence 23.093
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.202
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.490
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.557
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.616
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
When I cold reboot the computer 5.941
And the computer reboots Tails 33.370
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.342
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
Given I enable persistence 14.190
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.096
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.297
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.794
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:16.268
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 8.273
# 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 31.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.222
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.161
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.624
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 7.984
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.877
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.133
And all notifications have disappeared 8.638
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.136
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.926
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.415
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.553
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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1:8.185
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 8.130
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.526
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.083
And all notifications have disappeared 7.770
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.242
And all tps features are enabled 10.894
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:49.450
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:4.759
And I enable persistence 28.028
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.106
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.507
And persistence is enabled 9.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.749
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 7.349
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.971
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.286
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.666
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.916
When I enable persistence 13.543
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.421
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 8.508
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.210
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.303
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.199
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.119
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.208
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 7.880
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.401
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.803
And all notifications have disappeared 8.196
# 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" 0.137
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.174
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.052
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.788
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 8.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.539
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.230
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.208
When I log in to a new session 7.817
And all notifications have disappeared 6.906
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.034
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000