Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21664-21666-mitigations 1 29 Jun 2026, 15:28

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 23:7.506 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.299
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.515
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.305
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.901
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 9.473
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.699
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.402
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 8.443
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.121
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.480
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.664
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.016
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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30.318
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.104
And the system is very low on memory 4.032
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.223
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.567
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.149
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.625
And I free up some memory 1.231
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.335
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.340
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 8.148
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.453
And all tps features are active 6.597
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.468
When I disable the first tps feature 3.064
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.925
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.074
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.850
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
13.583
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 7.620
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.052
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.351
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 7.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.734
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.863
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.427
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 7.653
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.371
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.692
When I write some files expected to persist 1.509
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.306
# 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" 12.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.825
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 7.659
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.632
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.911
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.954
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 12.709
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.511
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.083
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43.112
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.116
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.500
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:5.222
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 9.069
When I enable persistence 18.629
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.288
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.820
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.453
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.674
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.454
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 9.243
And the computer reboots Tails 40.724
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.388
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.214
Given I enable persistence 11.267
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.129
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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2:21.888
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 enabled and logged in 8.553
# 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 29.385
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.299
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.754
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.992
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 8.324
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.231
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.148
And all notifications have disappeared 8.395
When I delete the persistent partition 3.412
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.077
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 8.111
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.918
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.629
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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52.033
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 8.278
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.590
And all notifications have disappeared 8.077
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.907
And all tps features are enabled 5.351
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.670
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 31.913
And I enable persistence 24.448
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.913
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.714
And persistence is enabled 5.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.803
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 7.289
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.794
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.860
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 8.353
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.775
When I enable persistence 11.130
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.470
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 7.724
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.101
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.894
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.439
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.083
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 7.408
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 1.341
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.484
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 11.877
And all notifications have disappeared 9.313
# 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" 0.243
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.554
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.447
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.052
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 8.386
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.004
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.370
When I log in to a new session 11.429
And all notifications have disappeared 8.963
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.536
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000