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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4183 22 Jan 2026, 16:33

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 25:23.658 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.165
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 1:18.820
And I update APT using apt 7.238
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.212
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.285
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 9.179
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.093
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 33.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:6.769
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.153
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.998
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 43.904
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.455
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.441
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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38.639
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.689
And the system is very low on memory 13.210
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.712
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.947
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.127
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.342
And I free up some memory 0.859
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.700
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.926
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 9.653
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.748
And all tps features are active 1.216
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.785
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.234
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 22.164
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.044
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.950
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 7.739
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.039
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.393
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.930
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 7.392
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.514
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.833
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.017
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 7.390
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.370
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.190
When I write some files expected to persist 1.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.883
# 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" 11.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.205
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 7.349
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.864
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.205
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.367
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 41.605
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.460
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
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1:1.070
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.803
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.313
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.832
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.368
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 9.268
When I enable persistence 28.419
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.521
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.664
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.280
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.308
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
When I cold reboot the computer 10.256
And the computer reboots Tails 36.138
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.245
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.201
Given I enable persistence 6.729
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.202
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.883
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:40.727
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 8.143
# 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 46.349
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.766
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.957
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
50.497
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.715
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.914
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.431
And all notifications have disappeared 8.409
When I delete the persistent partition 2.609
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.479
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 7.595
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.837
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.694
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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47.519
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.463
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.503
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.034
And all notifications have disappeared 8.013
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.221
And all tps features are enabled 0.945
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.934
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 41.486
And I enable persistence 28.655
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.756
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And persistence is enabled 1.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.408
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 7.312
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.498
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.490
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 7.463
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.893
When I enable persistence 8.227
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.419
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.433
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.827
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.030
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.135
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.321
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.248
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.076
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 7.446
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.943
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 10.700
And all notifications have disappeared 9.544
# 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" 0.247
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.457
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.284
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.773
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 7.241
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 23.002
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.348
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.693
When I log in to a new session 10.987
And all notifications have disappeared 7.705
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.216
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000