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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4079 19 Nov 2025, 13:12

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 33:34.043 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.292
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 1:58.576
And I update APT using apt 7.107
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.440
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.821
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.377
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.231
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.829
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.202
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.651
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.828
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.225
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
39.589
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 12.105
And the system is very low on memory 4.893
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.186
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.213
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.586
And I free up some memory 1.086
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.773
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:21.573
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 13.327
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And all tps features are active 2.234
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.518
When I disable the first tps feature 3.229
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.675
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.535
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
16.946
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 10.810
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.146
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.580
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 10.485
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 2.755
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.114
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.043
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 enabled and logged in 10.210
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 13.956
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.600
When I write some files expected to persist 1.407
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.797
# 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" 18.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.200
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 9.519
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 10.579
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.052
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.723
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 12.261
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.473
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
54.474
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.552
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.815
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:39.072
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 14.611
When I enable persistence 23.316
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.321
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.395
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.388
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 7.778
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.814
Given I enable persistence 12.560
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.628
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.932
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:54.733
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 12.702
# 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 32.634
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.650
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:37.419
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
50.331
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 11.521
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.986
Then persistence is disabled 0.207
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.401
And all notifications have disappeared 10.609
When I delete the persistent partition 3.099
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.163
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 11.458
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.116
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.242
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:0.527
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 11.469
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.669
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.624
And all notifications have disappeared 10.003
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.439
And all tps features are enabled 3.012
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:17.714
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 5:32.644
And I enable persistence 30.469
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.830
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.631
And persistence is enabled 2.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
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 9.177
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.892
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.444
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.190
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.743
When I enable persistence 12.159
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.769
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.085
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.101
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.590
When I try to enable persistence 1.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.801
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.243
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.270
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.898
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 10.320
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.433
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I log in to a new session 12.755
And all notifications have disappeared 11.438
# 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" 0.231
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.525
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.419
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.887
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.545
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 10.098
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.473
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.406
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.985
When I log in to a new session 12.438
And all notifications have disappeared 10.136
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.398
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000