Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21643-uefi-db 5 13 Jun 2026, 02:20

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 21:1.175 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.107
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.758
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.254
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.304
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.654
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.825
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.851
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.436
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.352
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.170
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.627
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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28.196
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.373
And the system is very low on memory 3.860
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.710
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.114
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.369
And I free up some memory 0.772
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.820
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.320
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.760
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And all tps features are active 4.519
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.835
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.846
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.657
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.056
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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13.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.722
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.417
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I disable the first tps feature 2.461
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.840
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.355
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.389
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.337
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.208
When I write some files expected to persist 1.027
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.571
# 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" 11.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.587
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.391
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.988
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.495
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.083
And I capture all network traffic 0.029
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.798
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.468
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
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38.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.037
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.697
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.929
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.937
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.649
When I enable persistence 16.285
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.702
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.313
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.608
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.285
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 8.941
And the computer reboots Tails 35.807
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.172
Given I enable persistence 10.361
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.257
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.367
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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2:10.548
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 8.443
# 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 26.643
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.583
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.463
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
37.272
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.352
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.045
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.095
And all notifications have disappeared 7.708
When I delete the persistent partition 2.657
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.166
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.579
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.441
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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47.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.067
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.103
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.538
And all notifications have disappeared 7.651
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.398
And all tps features are enabled 4.536
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:8.109
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
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 30.364
And I enable persistence 22.839
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.315
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.533
And persistence is enabled 5.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.606
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
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 7.308
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.726
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.179
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.220
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.012
When I enable persistence 9.948
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.167
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.314
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.932
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.194
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.394
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.965
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.041
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.215
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 9.754
And all notifications have disappeared 8.705
# 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" 0.294
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.097
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.442
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.982
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.552
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.542
When I log in to a new session 10.066
And all notifications have disappeared 8.820
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.368
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000