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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4228 11 Feb 2026, 20:46

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 22:43.584 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.712
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 1:23.787
And I update APT using apt 7.611
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.327
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.695
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 9.565
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.904
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.426
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.186
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 9.708
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.500
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.568
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.646
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.455
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.796
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.311
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
33.272
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.930
And the system is very low on memory 3.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.615
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.502
And I free up some memory 0.858
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.392
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.577
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 9.150
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.431
And all tps features are active 1.683
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.527
When I disable the first tps feature 3.201
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.319
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.331
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.776
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
14.742
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.339
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.123
When I disable the first tps feature 3.159
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.092
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 2.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.467
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 7.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 3.066
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.629
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.707
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 7.743
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.566
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.323
When I write some files expected to persist 1.503
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.589
# 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" 13.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:57.929
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 7.792
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.239
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.735
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.890
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.281
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.476
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.153
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
45.940
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.097
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.809
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.635
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 10.233
When I enable persistence 15.817
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.788
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.366
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.323
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.273
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.585
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.424
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.228
When I cold reboot the computer 11.112
And the computer reboots Tails 40.773
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.388
Given I enable persistence 8.932
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.107
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.448
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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2:19.713
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.231
# 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 27.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.453
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.479
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
43.018
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 8.706
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.327
Then persistence is disabled 0.184
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.481
And all notifications have disappeared 8.983
When I delete the persistent partition 2.839
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.998
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 7.796
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.114
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.787
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
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47.043
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 8.642
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.222
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.032
And all notifications have disappeared 8.018
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.876
And all tps features are enabled 1.546
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.570
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 35.123
And I enable persistence 22.803
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.235
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.568
And persistence is enabled 1.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.032
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 7.655
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.788
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.936
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 9.228
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.151
When I enable persistence 8.411
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.417
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 8.522
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.944
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.441
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.583
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.146
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.932
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 8.806
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.735
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 11.290
And all notifications have disappeared 9.201
# 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" 0.301
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.129
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.299
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.631
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.052
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 8.490
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.287
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.433
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.453
When I log in to a new session 12.066
And all notifications have disappeared 10.496
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.660
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000