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test_Tails_ISO_closed-issues-design-doc 4 29 May 2026, 15:18

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 21:11.207 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.889
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.122
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.827
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 8.884
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.649
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.234
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.607
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.677
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.515
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.176
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 9.680
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.112
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.256
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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28.693
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 7.715
And the system is very low on memory 3.956
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.320
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.979
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.970
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.058
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.331
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 1.370
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.032
When I disable the first tps feature 3.076
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.269
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.911
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.547
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.021
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13.054
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 7.663
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.272
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 7.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.586
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.976
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.894
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 7.214
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 14.007
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.192
When I write some files expected to persist 1.293
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.646
# 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" 12.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.581
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 7.669
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.125
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.593
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.337
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.087
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.071
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42.414
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.840
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.286
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:51.419
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 8.965
When I enable persistence 14.388
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.031
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.765
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.361
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.622
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.707
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 10.495
And the computer reboots Tails 36.564
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.356
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
Given I enable persistence 7.653
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.400
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.021
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2:8.813
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.167
# 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 30.522
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.928
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.811
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
38.324
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.405
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.614
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.391
And all notifications have disappeared 8.117
When I delete the persistent partition 3.304
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:22.357
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 7.535
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.758
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.748
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.020
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42.999
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 7.714
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.370
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.074
And all notifications have disappeared 7.820
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.301
And all tps features are enabled 1.161
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.580
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.760
And I enable persistence 20.870
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.486
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.741
And persistence is enabled 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.122
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.214
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.341
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.088
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 8.073
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.225
When I enable persistence 6.801
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.878
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 8.253
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.424
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.681
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.552
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.172
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.404
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 7.870
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.675
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.761
And all notifications have disappeared 9.474
# 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" 0.197
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.599
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.345
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.441
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 8.107
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.334
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.107
When I log in to a new session 11.646
And all notifications have disappeared 9.129
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.603
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000