Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-dconf-state 2 23 Jul 2026, 03:46

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 20:58.368 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.034
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.590
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.384
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.287
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.812
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 8.489
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.396
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.068
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 8.192
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.573
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.180
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.280
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.791
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 7.249
And the system is very low on memory 4.282
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.271
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.583
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 2.377
And I free up some memory 0.943
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.881
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.919
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 7.793
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And all tps features are active 5.281
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.887
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.612
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.718
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.874
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
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12.744
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 7.289
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.160
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.038
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.536
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 7.029
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.530
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.804
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.590
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 7.112
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.953
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.040
When I write some files expected to persist 1.300
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.468
# 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" 11.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.320
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 7.276
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.501
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.759
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.877
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.181
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.359
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.085
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.082
Tags: @product
40.324
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.042
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.810
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.248
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 8.299
When I enable persistence 18.533
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.826
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.263
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.472
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.241
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 6.024
And the computer reboots Tails 36.703
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.221
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.166
Given I enable persistence 10.645
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.235
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.720
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.938
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 7.722
# 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 30.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.656
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.069
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.044
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 7.367
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.679
Then persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.706
And all notifications have disappeared 8.105
When I delete the persistent partition 2.640
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.943
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 enabled and logged in 7.250
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.391
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.021
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
46.739
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 7.146
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.213
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.344
And all notifications have disappeared 7.876
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.260
And all tps features are enabled 4.881
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.760
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 31.084
And I enable persistence 23.860
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.908
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.531
And persistence is enabled 5.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.401
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 6.929
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.960
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.195
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 7.210
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.195
When I enable persistence 10.213
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.531
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 7.130
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.162
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.358
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.211
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 7.194
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.297
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 9.004
And all notifications have disappeared 8.865
# 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" 0.173
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.096
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.229
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.211
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 7.211
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.183
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.301
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.452
When I log in to a new session 9.131
And all notifications have disappeared 8.670
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.254
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000