Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21461-update-chutney 19 10 Aug 2026, 22:19

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 22:48.426 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.738
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 1:17.130
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.674
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.143
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 8.337
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.137
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.209
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.233
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 8.553
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.220
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.294
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.772
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.933
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 logged in 7.980
And the system is very low on memory 4.647
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.211
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.011
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.074
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.344
And I free up some memory 0.427
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.194
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.140
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 8.306
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 7.291
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.421
When I disable the first tps feature 2.592
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.338
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.440
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.469
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
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13.317
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 8.079
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I disable the first tps feature 2.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.036
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 7.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.461
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.803
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 7.586
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.507
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.578
When I write some files expected to persist 0.925
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.169
# 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" 10.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.710
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 7.609
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 17.467
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.220
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.302
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.419
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.043
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
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37.576
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.141
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.969
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.044
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 8.277
When I enable persistence 23.355
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.425
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.248
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.366
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.501
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.917
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
When I cold reboot the computer 5.894
And the computer reboots Tails 32.568
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.234
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.242
Given I enable persistence 12.215
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.051
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.171
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.070
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:4.919
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 8.174
# 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 30.354
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.182
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.987
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.370
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 8.088
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.089
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.908
And all notifications have disappeared 8.403
When I delete the persistent partition 2.530
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.833
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 7.731
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.282
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.563
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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53.745
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 7.966
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.787
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.433
And all notifications have disappeared 7.847
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.231
And all tps features are enabled 7.594
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.934
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 2:4.570
And I enable persistence 28.071
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.017
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.474
And persistence is enabled 9.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.510
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 7.382
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.658
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.057
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 8.219
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.413
When I enable persistence 14.501
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.035
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.308
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 8.010
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.218
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 1.982
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.106
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.171
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.111
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.241
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 7.998
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.128
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.075
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 6.914
And all notifications have disappeared 6.545
# 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" 0.164
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.087
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.038
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.827
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 21.229
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.420
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.238
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.152
When I log in to a new session 8.108
And all notifications have disappeared 6.668
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.042
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000