Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 1 20 Aug 2026, 10:56

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 25:44.619 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.472
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.850
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.575
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.246
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.658
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 8.879
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.027
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.049
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 9.111
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.785
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.350
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.115
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.160
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
Tags: @product
31.774
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.470
And the system is very low on memory 5.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.522
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.137
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.474
And I free up some memory 0.529
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.873
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 8.844
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 7.768
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.253
When I disable the first tps feature 2.565
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.561
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.216
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
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13.639
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 8.322
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 2.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.324
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 7.659
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.477
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.994
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.854
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 7.567
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.065
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.626
When I write some files expected to persist 1.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.478
# 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" 11.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.863
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 7.847
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.587
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.370
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.079
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.286
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.319
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
Tags: @product
40.876
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 8.622
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.059
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.683
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.921
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 9.229
When I enable persistence 23.199
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.258
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.152
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.500
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.317
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.580
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.221
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.310
And the computer reboots Tails 34.678
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.205
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.108
Given I enable persistence 14.435
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.321
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.010
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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2:27.713
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 22.071
# 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 29.388
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.280
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.279
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
40.892
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 8.799
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.177
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.199
And all notifications have disappeared 8.579
When I delete the persistent partition 2.778
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.546
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 8.699
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.844
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.707
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
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1:0.201
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 9.017
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.601
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.474
And all notifications have disappeared 7.811
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 8.436
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
4:6.850
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 3:13.172
And I enable persistence 34.105
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.705
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.577
And persistence is enabled 10.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.064
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.892
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.636
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.513
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 9.136
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.260
When I enable persistence 16.280
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.769
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 8.977
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.811
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.203
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.195
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.249
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.698
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 8.414
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.734
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.197
And all notifications have disappeared 6.708
# 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" 0.211
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.254
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.404
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.061
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 8.453
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.849
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.230
When I log in to a new session 9.148
And all notifications have disappeared 7.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.256
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000