Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21603-fragnesia 2 14 May 2026, 19:35

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 22:4.349 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.820
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.554
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.155
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.159
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.648
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
And persistence is disabled 0.138
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.957
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.759
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.665
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.590
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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33.680
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.338
And the system is very low on memory 5.625
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.225
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.041
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.159
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.395
And I free up some memory 0.903
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.919
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.469
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.380
And all tps features are active 1.343
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.586
When I disable the first tps feature 3.186
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.459
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.283
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.585
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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15.129
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.111
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 3.124
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 3.186
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.091
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.571
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.926
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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47.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.743
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.680
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.532
When I write some files expected to persist 1.866
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.987
# 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" 13.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:49.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.635
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.422
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.830
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.668
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.827
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.098
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.052
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43.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.182
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 16.048
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:58.575
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.594
When I enable persistence 15.641
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.852
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.826
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.268
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.549
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.595
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
When I cold reboot the computer 10.581
And the computer reboots Tails 39.818
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.420
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 7.766
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.099
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.250
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.414
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:23.696
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.508
# 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 35.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.063
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.377
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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40.713
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.158
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.967
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.535
And all notifications have disappeared 8.275
When I delete the persistent partition 3.287
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.012
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.880
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.948
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.827
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.031
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43.266
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.106
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.622
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.428
And all notifications have disappeared 7.893
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 1.089
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:7.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
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 32.834
And I enable persistence 20.729
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.574
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.607
And persistence is enabled 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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24.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.619
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.424
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.015
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.667
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.282
When I enable persistence 6.981
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.730
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.455
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.472
When I try to enable persistence 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.396
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.542
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.039
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.554
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 12.231
And all notifications have disappeared 9.957
# 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" 0.197
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.534
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.223
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.440
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.044
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.504
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.182
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.365
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.758
When I log in to a new session 12.719
And all notifications have disappeared 8.938
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.694
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000