Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21461-update-chutney 17 08 Aug 2026, 22:17

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 22:23.065 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.011
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 1:15.600
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.514
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.220
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.304
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 8.381
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.448
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.202
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.455
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 8.429
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.828
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 5.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.060
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
28.050
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 7.761
And the system is very low on memory 4.159
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.236
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.986
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.075
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.566
And I free up some memory 0.418
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.802
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.186
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 8.169
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And all tps features are active 8.216
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.582
When I disable the first tps feature 2.445
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.499
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.285
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.540
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
26.141
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 20.732
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.042
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.676
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 7.763
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.457
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.298
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.012
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 7.595
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.141
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.142
When I write some files expected to persist 0.860
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
# 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" 11.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.012
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 7.618
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.091
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.157
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.002
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.388
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product
36.461
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.973
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.980
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.354
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 21.289
When I enable persistence 21.530
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.476
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.279
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.139
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.468
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.844
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
When I cold reboot the computer 5.767
And the computer reboots Tails 32.987
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 12.280
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.308
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.883
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:4.990
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 8.147
# 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 27.752
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.507
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.479
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.039
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 8.075
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.932
Then persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.855
And all notifications have disappeared 8.284
When I delete the persistent partition 2.608
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.733
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 7.627
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.187
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.630
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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53.995
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 7.810
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.819
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.063
And all notifications have disappeared 8.267
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.218
And all tps features are enabled 6.995
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.082
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 1:55.528
And I enable persistence 25.163
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.091
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.524
And persistence is enabled 7.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.548
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 7.465
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.608
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.771
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 7.813
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.526
When I enable persistence 11.867
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.035
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.133
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 7.661
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.999
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.733
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.083
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.161
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.228
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.070
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 7.630
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.891
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.080
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.759
And all notifications have disappeared 8.105
# 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" 0.141
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.134
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.002
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
36.032
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 7.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.506
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.240
When I try to enable persistence 1.114
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.892
When I log in to a new session 7.011
And all notifications have disappeared 6.683
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.983
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000