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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4134 22 Dec 2025, 12:31

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 28:14.384 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.073
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:50.051
And I update APT using apt 5.748
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.301
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.371
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 9.968
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.737
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 10.341
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.475
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.539
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.190
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.265
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.431
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
33.107
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 9.868
And the system is very low on memory 1.011
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.031
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.914
And I free up some memory 1.003
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.265
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.680
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 10.131
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
And all tps features are active 2.205
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.370
When I disable the first tps feature 2.599
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.046
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.405
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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15.428
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 9.763
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.606
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.551
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.938
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 10.059
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.637
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.999
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.911
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 enabled and logged in 9.260
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 9.951
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.556
When I write some files expected to persist 1.357
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.221
# 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" 18.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.082
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 9.109
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 9.763
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.816
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.423
And I capture all network traffic 0.056
And the network is plugged 0.133
And Tor is ready 12.810
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.416
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.065
Tags: @product
43.151
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 10.525
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.142
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.245
When I enable persistence 12.805
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.034
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.543
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.007
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 8.916
And the computer reboots Tails 40.747
Given I enable persistence 10.920
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.522
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.054
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
2:45.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.196
# 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 24.994
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.862
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:30.068
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
40.019
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 10.740
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.457
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.421
And all notifications have disappeared 9.807
When I delete the persistent partition 3.026
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.840
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 9.882
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.627
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.589
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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47.550
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 9.669
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.521
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.451
And all notifications have disappeared 9.683
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.477
And all tps features are enabled 2.402
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:53.158
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 5:14.107
And I enable persistence 23.916
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.350
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.639
And persistence is enabled 2.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.352
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.301
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.365
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.686
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 9.668
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.520
When I enable persistence 12.175
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.663
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.544
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.466
When I try to enable persistence 1.391
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.179
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.200
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.306
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.446
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 9.798
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.476
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 0.069
When I log in to a new session 13.567
And all notifications have disappeared 9.528
# 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" 0.304
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.445
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.259
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.056
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.168
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 9.678
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.944
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.433
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.526
When I log in to a new session 11.410
And all notifications have disappeared 10.294
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.526
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000