Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_save-thunderbird-pcap 1 08 Sep 2026, 19:34

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 22:37.513 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.904
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 1:20.321
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.726
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.227
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.826
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 8.949
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.446
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.098
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 8.601
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.162
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.283
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.344
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.223
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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29.450
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 logged in 8.143
And the system is very low on memory 4.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.359
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.502
And I free up some memory 0.481
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.387
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.200
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 8.149
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
And all tps features are active 8.667
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.623
When I disable the first tps feature 2.461
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.910
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.703
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.191
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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13.406
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 8.174
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.486
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 7.875
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
And I disable the first tps feature 2.497
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.964
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.348
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 7.809
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.364
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.679
When I write some files expected to persist 0.871
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.233
# 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" 11.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.453
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 7.526
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 8.616
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.195
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.174
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.236
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
Tags: @product
39.719
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 8.407
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.066
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.955
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.383
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 8.644
When I enable persistence 23.493
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.383
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.552
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.382
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.447
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.831
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 5.886
And the computer reboots Tails 34.231
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.297
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.121
Given I enable persistence 12.621
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.165
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.721
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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2:11.090
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 8.590
# 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 32.427
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.540
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.836
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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38.004
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.093
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.177
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.308
And all notifications have disappeared 8.472
When I delete the persistent partition 2.607
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.544
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 8.020
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.439
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.841
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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57.273
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 8.127
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.207
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.694
And all notifications have disappeared 8.519
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.367
And all tps features are enabled 7.872
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:34.286
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 1:53.702
And I enable persistence 25.399
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.341
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.478
And persistence is enabled 7.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.685
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 7.345
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.911
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.870
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 7.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.883
When I enable persistence 12.552
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.602
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 7.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.662
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.529
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.084
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.120
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.585
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 7.712
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.347
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.247
And all notifications have disappeared 7.474
# 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" 0.171
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.062
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.132
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.023
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.289
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 7.801
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.144
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.247
When I try to enable persistence 1.128
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.268
When I log in to a new session 8.292
And all notifications have disappeared 8.646
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.032
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:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000