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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4179 20 Jan 2026, 08:52

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 21:21.457 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.931
And I update APT using apt 5.980
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.217
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 8.696
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.214
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.576
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 logged in 9.335
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.408
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.751
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.542
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.454
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.635
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.194
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
28.919
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 logged in 7.919
And the system is very low on memory 3.027
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.263
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.496
And I free up some memory 0.874
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.993
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.132
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 8.361
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And all tps features are active 1.355
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.946
When I disable the first tps feature 2.564
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.219
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.143
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.972
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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13.943
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 7.876
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 3.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.165
When I enable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.343
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 7.733
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.546
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.905
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.955
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 7.664
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.103
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.241
When I write some files expected to persist 1.431
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.546
# 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" 11.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:46.058
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.068
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.466
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.524
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.633
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.672
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.089
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41.435
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.865
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.128
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.812
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.589
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 8.589
When I enable persistence 14.596
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.466
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.626
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.410
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" 4.547
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.952
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
When I cold reboot the computer 10.624
And the computer reboots Tails 39.918
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.234
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.201
Given I enable persistence 7.173
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.287
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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2:8.244
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 8.122
# 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 25.228
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.637
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.041
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
38.316
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 7.953
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.481
Then persistence is disabled 0.146
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.216
And all notifications have disappeared 8.417
When I delete the persistent partition 2.760
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.663
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.450
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.504
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.335
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
42.239
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 7.910
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.953
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.605
And all notifications have disappeared 8.086
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 1.057
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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 30.999
And I enable persistence 20.392
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.208
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.963
And persistence is enabled 1.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.871
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 7.294
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.012
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.129
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 corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.473
When I enable persistence 6.882
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.972
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 7.369
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.995
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.310
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.437
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.190
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.120
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 7.810
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.430
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 11.471
And all notifications have disappeared 9.511
# 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" 0.251
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.381
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.214
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.673
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.109
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 7.570
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.442
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.682
When I log in to a new session 10.311
And all notifications have disappeared 9.107
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.461
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000