Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21461-update-chutney 7 29 Jul 2026, 22:42

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 23:1.400 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.212
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.637
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.290
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.061
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 8.969
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.837
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.392
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 9.135
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.863
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.589
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.049
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
31.289
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.547
And the system is very low on memory 4.885
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.250
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.531
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.181
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.408
And I free up some memory 0.878
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.556
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.461
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 8.705
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
And all tps features are active 5.396
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.134
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.362
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.918
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.612
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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13.570
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 7.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.140
When I disable the first tps feature 3.091
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.530
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.253
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 7.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.589
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.884
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.738
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 7.810
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.949
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.638
When I write some files expected to persist 1.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.626
# 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" 13.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.609
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 7.821
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.500
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.302
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.690
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.434
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.425
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130
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45.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.020
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 16.128
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.927
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 9.172
When I enable persistence 22.985
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.029
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.995
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.314
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.522
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.858
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 6.723
And the computer reboots Tails 38.891
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 11.436
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.556
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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2:12.383
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 8.664
# 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 27.550
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.331
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.118
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
43.669
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 8.284
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.689
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.153
And all notifications have disappeared 8.575
When I delete the persistent partition 3.409
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:28.556
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.963
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.100
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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55.626
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.849
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.109
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.678
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.029
And all notifications have disappeared 8.044
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.272
And all tps features are enabled 5.774
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.609
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.401
And I enable persistence 27.179
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.999
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.786
And persistence is enabled 6.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.446
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 7.386
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.441
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.469
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 8.687
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.312
When I enable persistence 11.671
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.136
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.990
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.378
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.414
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.722
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.181
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.657
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 7.665
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.870
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.912
And all notifications have disappeared 9.652
# 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" 0.179
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.581
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.368
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.251
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.553
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.014
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.780
When I log in to a new session 11.612
And all notifications have disappeared 9.967
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.945
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000