Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21461-update-chutney 20 11 Aug 2026, 22:18

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 21:59.412 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:26.853
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 1:15.905
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.683
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.259
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.298
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 8.501
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.151
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.057
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.394
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.403
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.481
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.152
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 56.302
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.160
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
28.838
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 7.811
And the system is very low on memory 4.478
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.226
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.078
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.318
And I free up some memory 0.507
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.148
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.480
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 7.899
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And all tps features are active 7.477
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.503
When I disable the first tps feature 2.450
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.180
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.758
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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12.265
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 7.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 1.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.040
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.444
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 7.576
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.457
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.240
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.138
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 7.541
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 18.160
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.996
When I write some files expected to persist 0.978
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.496
# 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" 10.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.384
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 7.592
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.024
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.397
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.664
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.948
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073
Tags: @product
37.481
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 8.531
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
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 16.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.153
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 8.316
When I enable persistence 21.546
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.472
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.820
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.135
# 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 21.998
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.101
When I cold reboot the computer 6.956
And the computer reboots Tails 32.135
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.314
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.192
Given I enable persistence 12.084
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.149
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.859
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
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2:4.614
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 7.903
# 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 28.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.263
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.327
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
36.678
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 7.652
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.292
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.282
And all notifications have disappeared 8.557
When I delete the persistent partition 2.598
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.336
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 7.670
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.224
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.222
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
53.809
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 7.823
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.752
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.077
And all notifications have disappeared 8.120
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.271
And all tps features are enabled 7.214
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.708
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 1:51.675
And I enable persistence 26.214
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.421
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.503
And persistence is enabled 7.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.052
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 7.224
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.221
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.066
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 8.097
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.579
When I enable persistence 12.209
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.518
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 7.798
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.567
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.213
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.302
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.085
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.198
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 7.660
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.920
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 7.116
And all notifications have disappeared 7.918
# 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" 0.138
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.058
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.142
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.017
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.032
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 7.801
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.355
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.248
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.333
When I log in to a new session 6.718
And all notifications have disappeared 8.348
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.146
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000