Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_drop-net-dns-warning 1 22 May 2026, 18:17

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 21:57.021 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.953
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.430
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.268
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.291
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.300
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.635
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.551
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And persistence is disabled 0.173
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.473
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 22.049
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.419
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.800
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.416
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.283
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.287
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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31.214
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.680
And the system is very low on memory 4.226
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.713
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.207
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.483
And I free up some memory 0.908
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.746
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.144
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.942
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And all tps features are active 1.283
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.003
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.216
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.307
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.050
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13.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.789
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I disable the first tps feature 2.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.664
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 2.731
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.142
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.528
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 13.042
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.263
When I write some files expected to persist 1.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.731
# 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" 12.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:47.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.819
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.299
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.646
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.179
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.931
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.464
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.052
Tags: @product
42.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.291
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.669
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:58.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.242
When I enable persistence 14.338
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.006
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.995
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.411
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.601
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.948
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 9.424
And the computer reboots Tails 40.262
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.249
Given I enable persistence 8.453
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.264
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.208
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:14.383
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.245
# 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 29.743
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.036
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.558
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.022
Tags: @product
41.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.100
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.870
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.375
And all notifications have disappeared 7.922
When I delete the persistent partition 3.351
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.857
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.980
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.904
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
43.580
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.458
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.931
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.561
And all notifications have disappeared 7.913
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 1.031
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.779
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.016
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 32.921
And I enable persistence 21.914
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.191
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.859
And persistence is enabled 1.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.723
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.685
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.927
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.110
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.250
When I enable persistence 7.701
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.512
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.166
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.166
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.776
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.466
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.240
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.556
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.097
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.668
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I log in to a new session 12.759
And all notifications have disappeared 9.016
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.690
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.312
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.438
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.672
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.432
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.317
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.101
When I log in to a new session 11.939
And all notifications have disappeared 10.267
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.819
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000