Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21641-update-moat-frontends 3 13 Aug 2026, 17:12

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 23:54.571 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.410
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 1:22.523
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.902
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.257
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.186
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.886
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.149
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.201
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.693
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.007
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.419
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.255
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.378
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.913
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 8.480
And the system is very low on memory 4.670
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.235
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.544
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.464
And I free up some memory 0.778
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.599
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.755
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 8.474
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And all tps features are active 8.551
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.695
When I disable the first tps feature 2.462
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.479
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.830
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.644
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
13.693
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 8.362
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.479
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.595
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 7.961
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 2.544
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.846
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
57.260
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 21.181
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.159
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.179
When I write some files expected to persist 0.923
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.265
# 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" 12.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.108
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 7.741
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.478
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.288
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.167
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.665
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.342
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
Tags: @product
39.705
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.687
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.459
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:56.620
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 9.136
When I enable persistence 22.828
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.916
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.619
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.445
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.338
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.919
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 6.133
And the computer reboots Tails 34.523
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.111
Given I enable persistence 13.953
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.445
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.058
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:9.315
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 8.519
# 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 29.395
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.509
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.454
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
40.742
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.201
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.236
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.166
And all notifications have disappeared 9.139
When I delete the persistent partition 2.651
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.021
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 enabled and logged in 8.272
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.217
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.285
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
59.594
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 8.174
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.522
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.453
And all notifications have disappeared 8.746
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.297
And all tps features are enabled 8.288
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.073
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 2:1.711
And I enable persistence 27.251
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.294
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.547
And persistence is enabled 8.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.776
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 7.771
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.304
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.579
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 8.882
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.714
When I enable persistence 14.558
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.526
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 7.750
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.150
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.798
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.293
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.225
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.053
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 8.374
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.886
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 8.557
And all notifications have disappeared 6.980
# 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" 0.287
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.120
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.189
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.223
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.944
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 8.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.157
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.641
When I log in to a new session 8.696
And all notifications have disappeared 7.252
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.288
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000