Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21655-firmware-nonfree-20260519 1 15 Jun 2026, 14:10

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 23:22.209 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.035
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.881
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.380
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.371
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.908
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.717
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 8.449
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.984
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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31.263
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 7.542
And the system is very low on memory 3.441
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.316
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.203
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.433
And I free up some memory 0.866
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.315
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.197
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 9.228
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And all tps features are active 5.331
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.390
When I disable the first tps feature 3.099
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.339
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.552
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.966
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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14.882
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.924
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 3.047
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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14.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.152
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.153
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.005
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.331
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.895
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.810
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.976
When I write some files expected to persist 1.308
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.060
# 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" 12.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.192
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.306
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 8.838
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.398
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.009
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 11.880
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.074
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42.967
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.051
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.313
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:6.055
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.369
When I enable persistence 19.780
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.012
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.029
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.386
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" 4.574
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.196
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 10.732
And the computer reboots Tails 38.193
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.265
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.193
Given I enable persistence 13.332
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.294
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.050
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
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2:29.584
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.212
# 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 27.790
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.824
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:21.618
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
41.665
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.714
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.774
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.541
And all notifications have disappeared 8.439
When I delete the persistent partition 2.743
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.140
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.939
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.202
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.597
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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55.791
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.411
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.757
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.679
And all notifications have disappeared 8.125
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.439
And all tps features are enabled 5.528
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.026
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
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 33.319
And I enable persistence 25.237
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.051
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.652
And persistence is enabled 5.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.637
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.120
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.940
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.151
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.993
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.734
When I enable persistence 11.369
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.593
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.797
When I try to enable persistence 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.810
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.566
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.148
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.557
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 8.653
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.590
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.150
And all notifications have disappeared 9.439
# 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" 0.260
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.132
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.680
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.028
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.505
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.888
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.345
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.882
When I log in to a new session 11.423
And all notifications have disappeared 9.388
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.601
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000