Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21909-allow-disabling-busy-persistence-features 1 12 Nov 2026, 19:58

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 24:27.816 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.921
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 1:20.242
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.348
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.564
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.060
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 8.942
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.443
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And persistence is disabled 0.137
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.175
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 22.822
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.267
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.813
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.473
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
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31.102
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 8.699
And the system is very low on memory 5.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.202
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.933
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.401
And I free up some memory 0.521
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.013
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 8.729
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
And all tps features are active 8.546
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.863
When I disable the first tps feature 2.415
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.863
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.066
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.362
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 8.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.041
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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14.351
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 8.169
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I disable the first tps feature 3.059
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.926
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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46.467
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 8.032
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 12.875
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.220
When I write some files expected to persist 1.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.429
# 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" 11.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.825
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 7.931
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.507
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.389
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.585
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.651
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.075
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40.716
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.827
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.006
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.823
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 9.108
When I enable persistence 24.104
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.688
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.411
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.328
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.471
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.354
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 6.205
And the computer reboots Tails 35.566
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.143
Given I enable persistence 15.446
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.325
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.729
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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2:15.360
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 9.054
# 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 27.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.580
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.564
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.150
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 8.530
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.627
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.417
And all notifications have disappeared 8.557
When I delete the persistent partition 2.651
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.309
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 8.970
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.724
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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1:0.955
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 8.065
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.475
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.657
And all notifications have disappeared 8.708
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.328
And all tps features are enabled 8.787
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:42.389
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 1:58.227
And I enable persistence 27.809
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.737
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.623
And persistence is enabled 7.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.745
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 7.649
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.480
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.423
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 8.434
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.429
When I enable persistence 14.636
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.247
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 8.173
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.330
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.111
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.464
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.190
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.160
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.695
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 8.187
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.033
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I log in to a new session 8.836
And all notifications have disappeared 7.755
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.065
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.020
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.719
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 8.120
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.582
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.366
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.426
When I log in to a new session 9.233
And all notifications have disappeared 7.620
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.189
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000