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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4181 22 Jan 2026, 09:23

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 31:55.580 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.954
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 1:57.408
And I update APT using apt 7.196
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.485
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 12.518
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.229
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:14.445
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.825
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.660
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.590
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.638
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.929
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.233
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
37.976
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 10.832
And the system is very low on memory 4.387
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.459
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.118
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.138
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.540
And I free up some memory 0.984
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.002
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.182
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 15.682
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
And all tps features are active 2.126
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.452
When I disable the first tps feature 3.160
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.279
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.861
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.085
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
15.436
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 9.701
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.705
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.744
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 enabled and logged in 9.681
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 5.685
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.157
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.986
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 9.690
And the network is plugged 0.158
And Tor is ready 13.373
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.603
When I write some files expected to persist 1.515
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.878
# 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" 17.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.458
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 9.431
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 10.818
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.759
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.185
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 12.293
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.437
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
Tags: @product
50.469
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.078
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.212
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.238
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:39.251
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 12.767
When I enable persistence 22.690
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.117
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.408
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.545
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.548
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 5.996
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.033
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
When I cold reboot the computer 12.142
And the computer reboots Tails 44.422
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.453
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.283
Given I enable persistence 10.867
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.096
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.539
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.967
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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2:33.390
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 13.210
# 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 30.516
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.284
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.871
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
53.424
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 13.079
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.704
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.933
And all notifications have disappeared 11.196
When I delete the persistent partition 2.963
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.501
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 12.667
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.258
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.195
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
58.330
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 11.648
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.102
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.931
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.986
And all notifications have disappeared 9.536
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.392
And all tps features are enabled 2.456
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:5.773
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 5:21.173
And I enable persistence 29.080
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.445
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.746
And persistence is enabled 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.617
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 9.008
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.866
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.244
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 11.523
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.975
When I enable persistence 11.997
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.892
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 10.721
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.940
When I try to enable persistence 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.311
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.852
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.271
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.020
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 10.494
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.617
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.445
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 13.179
And all notifications have disappeared 10.212
# 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" 0.278
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.598
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.308
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.259
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:13.992
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 9.988
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.385
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.419
When I log in to a new session 12.386
And all notifications have disappeared 12.485
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.763
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000