Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21644-desktop-file-dirs-mount-monitoring 2 04 Aug 2026, 11:25

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 22:37.502 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.417
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.765
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.364
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.285
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.682
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 8.883
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.440
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.374
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 8.667
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.689
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 7.379
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.986
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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32.599
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.488
And the system is very low on memory 4.591
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.765
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.419
And I free up some memory 0.848
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.496
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 8.326
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
And all tps features are active 6.152
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.005
When I disable the first tps feature 2.580
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.860
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.935
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
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12.917
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 7.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.285
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 7.241
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.118
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.705
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.117
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.717
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 7.303
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.689
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.276
When I write some files expected to persist 1.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.376
# 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" 12.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.591
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 7.298
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.238
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.448
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.128
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.673
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.410
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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41.634
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.665
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.133
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.221
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 8.962
When I enable persistence 19.831
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.960
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.651
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.369
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.360
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.644
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.612
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 6.224
And the computer reboots Tails 37.408
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.280
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 12.451
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.138
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.247
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.591
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:17.656
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 7.962
# 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 30.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.088
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.769
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
41.888
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 7.990
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.044
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.071
And all notifications have disappeared 8.448
When I delete the persistent partition 2.802
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.881
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 7.723
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.586
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.175
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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54.037
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 7.800
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.733
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.204
And all notifications have disappeared 8.542
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.252
And all tps features are enabled 5.173
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.138
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 34.125
And I enable persistence 27.573
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.321
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 5.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.656
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.732
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.280
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.521
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 8.109
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.800
When I enable persistence 11.725
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.783
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 8.039
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.138
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.337
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.285
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.433
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 7.849
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.332
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 12.376
And all notifications have disappeared 10.992
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.523
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.213
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.567
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.566
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 7.598
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.593
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.375
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.823
When I log in to a new session 12.400
And all notifications have disappeared 8.930
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.667
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000