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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4185 23 Jan 2026, 08:49

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 21:24.727 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.504
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.900
And I update APT using apt 5.895
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.343
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.560
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 9.553
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.413
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.594
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 9.805
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.522
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.650
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.536
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.366
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.234
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
32.515
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 8.379
And the system is very low on memory 4.329
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.293
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.115
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.584
And I free up some memory 1.058
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.713
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.564
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
And all tps features are active 1.194
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.207
When I disable the first tps feature 2.794
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.344
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.760
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.169
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.882
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 7.956
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 3.027
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.586
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 7.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 3.054
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.895
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.362
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 7.751
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.751
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.273
When I write some files expected to persist 1.377
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.430
# 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" 12.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.233
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 7.583
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.786
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.561
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.937
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.570
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
Tags: @product
39.989
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 8.952
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.113
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.923
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.697
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 9.317
When I enable persistence 14.277
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.797
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.204
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.405
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.321
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.610
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.572
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 10.415
And the computer reboots Tails 38.622
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
Given I enable persistence 7.492
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.220
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.491
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:9.952
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 8.418
# 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 27.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.549
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.652
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
39.928
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 8.783
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.646
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.575
And all notifications have disappeared 8.378
When I delete the persistent partition 2.946
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.294
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 8.503
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.772
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.675
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
43.537
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 8.450
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.351
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.442
And all notifications have disappeared 8.310
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.272
And all tps features are enabled 1.159
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.360
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.212
And I enable persistence 20.368
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.132
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.530
And persistence is enabled 2.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.379
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.273
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.608
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.142
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 8.633
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.578
When I enable persistence 7.215
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.336
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 8.181
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.898
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.096
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.367
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.257
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.358
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 7.970
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.423
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 11.737
And all notifications have disappeared 9.192
# 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" 0.445
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.660
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.167
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.405
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.797
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 8.117
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.773
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.635
When I log in to a new session 9.588
And all notifications have disappeared 9.506
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.863
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000