Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21643-uefi-db 3 11 Jun 2026, 02:03

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 19:48.496 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.908
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.890
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.760
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.303
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.591
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 8.441
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.255
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:31.169
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.029
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.753
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.421
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.239
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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27.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.422
And the system is very low on memory 3.796
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.289
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.302
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.118
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.912
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.486
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.397
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 enabled and logged in 7.994
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
And all tps features are active 1.265
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.014
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.205
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.199
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 7.656
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.141
When I disable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.064
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 enabled and logged in 7.177
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.763
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.917
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.376
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 7.152
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.140
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.253
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.578
# 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" 12.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.288
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 enabled and logged in 7.320
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 9.821
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.796
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.418
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 12.112
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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36.525
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.381
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 12.042
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:45.843
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.768
When I enable persistence 12.981
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.791
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.155
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.262
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.469
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.562
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 10.203
And the computer reboots Tails 36.156
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 6.905
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.265
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.292
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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2:7.831
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 8.069
# 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 26.579
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.386
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.370
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.082
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36.763
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.892
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.565
Then persistence is disabled 0.139
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.419
And all notifications have disappeared 7.731
When I delete the persistent partition 2.702
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:18.827
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 enabled and logged in 7.462
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.344
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.680
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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39.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.624
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.494
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.602
And all notifications have disappeared 7.561
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.268
And all tps features are enabled 0.972
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:3.180
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 30.190
And I enable persistence 21.195
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.748
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.606
And persistence is enabled 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.711
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 7.091
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.050
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.614
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 8.109
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.107
When I enable persistence 6.715
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.517
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.483
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.217
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.998
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.264
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.330
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 7.411
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.556
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.809
And all notifications have disappeared 9.238
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.375
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.191
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.796
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 7.313
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.384
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.292
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.042
When I log in to a new session 10.233
And all notifications have disappeared 8.228
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.332
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000