Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21578-test-suite-pure-disk-boot 1 15 Jun 2026, 16:36

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 22:32.898 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.577
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.634
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.706
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.768
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.121
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.286
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.508
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.432
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.014
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.840
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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31.353
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.843
And the system is very low on memory 3.935
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.144
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.199
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.459
And I free up some memory 0.890
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.626
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.167
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And all tps features are active 5.547
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.866
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.395
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.292
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.458
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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14.032
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.786
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 3.057
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.798
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.619
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 13.344
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.343
When I write some files expected to persist 1.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.355
# 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" 12.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.084
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.041
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.409
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.667
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.284
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.550
And I capture all network traffic 0.042
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.346
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
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40.126
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.920
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.060
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.476
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.521
When I enable persistence 20.241
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.894
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.756
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.410
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.298
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.546
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.826
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.247
When I cold reboot the computer 9.395
And the computer reboots Tails 37.830
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.230
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.170
Given I enable persistence 11.809
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.283
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.810
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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2:16.813
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.150
# 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 27.758
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.660
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.028
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
40.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
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
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.802
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.223
And all notifications have disappeared 8.021
When I delete the persistent partition 2.763
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.632
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.085
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.927
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.257
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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50.252
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.755
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.343
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.394
And all notifications have disappeared 7.900
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.327
And all tps features are enabled 4.617
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.198
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
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 31.300
And I enable persistence 24.686
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.225
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.618
And persistence is enabled 5.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.748
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
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 7.463
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.620
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.019
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.625
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.722
When I enable persistence 10.979
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.498
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.363
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.162
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.536
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.508
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.543
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.267
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.385
And all notifications have disappeared 9.584
# 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" 0.181
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.577
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.211
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.437
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.406
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.003
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.691
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.401
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.817
When I log in to a new session 12.036
And all notifications have disappeared 8.742
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.808
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000