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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4163 13 Jan 2026, 22:32

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 20:47.412 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.022
And I update APT using apt 6.502
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.221
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.655
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 8.406
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.152
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.266
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.247
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.348
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.121
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.451
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.428
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
29.574
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.872
And the system is very low on memory 2.839
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.306
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.859
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.632
And I free up some memory 0.904
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.547
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.766
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 enabled and logged in 8.510
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 1.309
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.098
When I disable the first tps feature 2.605
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.027
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.596
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.783
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.409
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.040
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.916
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 enabled and logged in 7.381
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
And I disable the first tps feature 2.559
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.805
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.716
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 enabled and logged in 7.453
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.076
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.188
When I write some files expected to persist 1.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.513
# 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" 12.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.991
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 7.515
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.373
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.698
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.736
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.871
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
39.577
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 9.245
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 10.759
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.889
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 9.304
When I enable persistence 14.095
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.468
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.820
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.571
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.357
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 10.284
And the computer reboots Tails 36.303
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 7.477
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.420
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:11.362
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 enabled and logged in 8.305
# 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 27.850
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.508
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.491
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
39.250
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 8.005
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.433
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.385
And all notifications have disappeared 8.229
When I delete the persistent partition 2.725
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.220
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.786
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.872
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.280
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
41.821
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 7.992
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.013
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.872
And all notifications have disappeared 8.255
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.241
And all tps features are enabled 1.108
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.029
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.559
And I enable persistence 21.009
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.287
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And persistence is enabled 1.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.539
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.193
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.831
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.518
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.001
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.080
When I enable persistence 7.576
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.364
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 7.902
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.289
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.429
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.342
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 7.922
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.222
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 11.057
And all notifications have disappeared 9.068
# 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" 0.234
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.101
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.190
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.340
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.135
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.146
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.404
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.768
When I log in to a new session 9.185
And all notifications have disappeared 8.277
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.866
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000