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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4063 10 Nov 2025, 12:15

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 34:6.976 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:56.058
And I update APT using apt 11.442
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 7.037
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.008
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 12.551
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.521
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.578
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.408
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.402
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.532
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.396
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.672
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.218
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.377
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.303
And the system is very low on memory 5.180
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.269
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.274
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.617
And I free up some memory 1.172
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.723
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:15.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.625
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.404
And all tps features are active 2.140
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.279
When I disable the first tps feature 3.140
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.928
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
17.691
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 3.145
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.531
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.444
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.847
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.114
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I disable the first tps feature 3.107
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.223
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.894
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.431
And the network is plugged 0.196
And Tor is ready 14.379
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.708
When I write some files expected to persist 1.445
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.491
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 18.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.073
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.037
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 42.580
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.437
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.809
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 12.111
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.477
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
51.252
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.391
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.561
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:39.966
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.879
When I enable persistence 21.819
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.293
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.226
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.437
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.814
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.501
Given I enable persistence 12.778
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.604
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.284
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
3:0.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.426
# 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 28.894
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.464
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.629
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
53.886
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 12.607
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.712
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.486
And all notifications have disappeared 10.654
When I delete the persistent partition 2.871
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.293
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.383
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.950
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:1.336
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 12.495
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.017
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.871
And all notifications have disappeared 10.479
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.469
And all tps features are enabled 2.524
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:10.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
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 5:28.878
And I enable persistence 27.597
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.620
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.609
And persistence is enabled 2.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.220
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.100
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.371
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.350
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.585
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.262
When I enable persistence 12.133
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.272
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.886
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.121
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.603
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.294
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.297
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.989
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.209
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.640
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 12.689
And all notifications have disappeared 11.281
# 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" 0.277
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.523
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.284
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.973
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.716
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.952
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.090
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.353
When I try to enable persistence 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.330
When I log in to a new session 13.029
And all notifications have disappeared 9.754
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.497
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000