Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21644-desktop-file-dirs-mount-monitoring 6 13 Aug 2026, 10:43

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 24:30.299 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.242
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 1:22.032
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.172
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.243
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.191
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 8.734
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.170
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.168
And persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.542
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 22.180
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.137
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.440
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.941
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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31.269
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 8.498
And the system is very low on memory 4.917
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.049
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.454
And I free up some memory 0.516
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.424
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:4.579
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 enabled and logged in 21.591
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 8.455
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.847
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.451
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.535
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.107
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.660
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 8.216
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.651
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 7.936
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I disable the first tps feature 2.578
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.950
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.680
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 enabled and logged in 7.729
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.704
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.197
When I write some files expected to persist 0.934
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.346
# 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" 11.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.026
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 21.367
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 9.052
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.184
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.353
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.442
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.946
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.420
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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41.458
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.656
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.145
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.103
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.111
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 8.569
When I enable persistence 23.736
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.001
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.539
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.433
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.309
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.491
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.818
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 6.041
And the computer reboots Tails 34.406
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.466
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.272
Given I enable persistence 16.612
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.155
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.878
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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2:8.398
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 8.772
# 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 28.381
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.278
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.913
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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41.375
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.966
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.723
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.514
And all notifications have disappeared 8.977
When I delete the persistent partition 2.753
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.116
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 8.677
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.322
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.848
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:3.660
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.723
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.196
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.374
And all notifications have disappeared 8.875
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 9.101
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.221
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:4.792
And I enable persistence 27.637
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.680
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.711
And persistence is enabled 8.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.162
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
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 8.027
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.580
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.880
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 8.491
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.712
When I enable persistence 13.107
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.916
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 8.600
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.766
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.269
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.349
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.087
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.393
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 8.457
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.347
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.830
And all notifications have disappeared 7.534
# 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" 0.167
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.173
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.243
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.220
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.759
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 8.402
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.575
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.499
When I log in to a new session 9.299
And all notifications have disappeared 7.334
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.258
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000