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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4229 12 Feb 2026, 11:56

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 20:25.370 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.075
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 1:17.266
And I update APT using apt 5.756
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.874
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 8.492
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.205
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.545
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 8.536
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.589
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.422
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.382
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.904
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
27.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.445
And the system is very low on memory 3.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.643
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.351
And I free up some memory 0.828
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.134
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.003
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 8.181
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And all tps features are active 1.110
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.838
When I disable the first tps feature 2.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.020
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.773
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
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13.052
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 7.662
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.690
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 7.099
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.471
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.940
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.720
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 7.246
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.962
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.170
When I write some files expected to persist 1.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.517
# 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" 11.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:7.827
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 7.209
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.870
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.852
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.316
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 41.774
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.439
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.104
Tags: @product
38.272
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 8.361
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.408
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.311
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 8.509
When I enable persistence 13.208
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.489
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.616
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.333
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.593
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.957
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 6.245
And the computer reboots Tails 36.331
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 8.249
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.237
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.403
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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2:8.660
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 8.001
# 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 26.294
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.425
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.199
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
36.470
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 7.890
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.785
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.271
And all notifications have disappeared 8.131
When I delete the persistent partition 2.836
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.344
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 7.656
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.289
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.073
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
39.983
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.827
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.483
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.041
And all notifications have disappeared 8.018
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 0.992
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.711
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 30.348
And I enable persistence 19.773
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.445
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.524
And persistence is enabled 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.510
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 7.143
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.784
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.953
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 7.924
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.634
When I enable persistence 6.580
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.961
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 7.786
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.896
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.194
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.364
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.200
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.981
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 7.624
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.790
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.408
And all notifications have disappeared 9.052
# 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" 0.194
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.145
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.199
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.298
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.601
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.040
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.810
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.392
When I log in to a new session 10.070
And all notifications have disappeared 8.581
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.339
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000