Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21546-release-process-fix-isos-git 2 07 May 2026, 23:36

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 21:43.642 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.677
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.176
And I update APT using apt 6.207
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.227
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.926
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.427
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.430
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.641
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.602
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.492
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.679
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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29.774
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.456
And the system is very low on memory 3.751
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.198
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.590
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.832
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.929
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.818
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.519
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And all tps features are active 1.291
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.253
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.340
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.215
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.997
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.300
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.868
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.183
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.665
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.024
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 16.169
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.236
When I write some files expected to persist 1.225
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.423
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.898
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.417
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 17.073
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.120
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.080
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 22.385
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
39.056
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.475
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.424
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.386
When I enable persistence 12.942
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.656
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.780
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.359
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.303
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.613
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.642
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 10.162
And the computer reboots Tails 37.295
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.273
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.181
Given I enable persistence 7.611
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.109
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.211
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.595
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:8.396
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.387
# 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 28.311
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.640
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.619
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 17.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.962
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.727
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.523
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.177
And all notifications have disappeared 8.217
When I delete the persistent partition 2.849
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.993
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.749
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.769
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.206
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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41.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.979
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.082
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.343
And all notifications have disappeared 7.890
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.260
And all tps features are enabled 1.010
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.074
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
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 32.240
And I enable persistence 20.511
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.788
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.609
And persistence is enabled 1.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.975
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
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 7.421
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.819
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.300
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.337
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.300
When I enable persistence 6.825
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.640
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.508
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.138
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.070
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.351
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.309
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.094
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.205
And all notifications have disappeared 8.857
# 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" 0.483
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.144
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.336
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.401
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.465
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.380
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.216
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.259
When I log in to a new session 10.582
And all notifications have disappeared 8.849
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.783
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000