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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4188 24 Jan 2026, 11:48

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 20:38.289 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.940
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 1:19.091
And I update APT using apt 5.751
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.219
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 8.635
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.772
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.620
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 8.860
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.750
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.518
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
28.118
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 7.832
And the system is very low on memory 2.950
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.731
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.423
And I free up some memory 0.856
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.935
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.209
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 8.101
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.528
And all tps features are active 1.586
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.182
When I disable the first tps feature 2.641
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.479
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.236
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
13.655
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 8.352
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.160
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 7.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 2.643
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.844
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.873
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 7.350
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.878
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.222
When I write some files expected to persist 1.334
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.488
# 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" 12.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.721
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 7.389
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 11.547
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.466
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.307
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.325
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
39.837
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.912
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.239
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.371
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.944
When I enable persistence 14.136
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.261
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.815
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.428
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.266
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.526
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.908
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 6.330
And the computer reboots Tails 37.722
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.234
Given I enable persistence 6.875
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.265
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.892
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:5.153
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 8.197
# 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 28.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.445
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.065
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.210
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 7.999
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.497
Then persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.028
And all notifications have disappeared 8.376
When I delete the persistent partition 2.763
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.796
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 7.488
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.609
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.402
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
43.287
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.345
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.687
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.946
And all notifications have disappeared 8.019
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.401
And all tps features are enabled 1.138
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.862
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 30.556
And I enable persistence 19.818
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.234
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.572
And persistence is enabled 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.701
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 7.260
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.857
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.748
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 8.312
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.995
When I enable persistence 6.627
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.037
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.754
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 7.849
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.620
When I try to enable persistence 1.354
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.975
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.516
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.146
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.774
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 7.639
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.511
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.791
And all notifications have disappeared 9.351
# 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" 0.284
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.425
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.215
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.359
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.272
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 7.442
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.886
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.403
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.409
When I log in to a new session 10.778
And all notifications have disappeared 9.508
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.756
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000