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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4234 16 Feb 2026, 13:48

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 20:17.623 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.097
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 1:15.565
And I update APT using apt 5.477
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.234
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.319
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 8.459
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.531
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.219
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.729
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 8.534
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.358
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.447
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.337
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.371
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
27.464
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 7.490
And the system is very low on memory 3.126
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.707
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.845
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.592
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.260
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 8.448
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And all tps features are active 1.132
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.944
When I disable the first tps feature 2.460
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.785
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.003
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.915
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 7.587
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.727
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 7.282
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.487
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.782
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.312
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 7.163
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.833
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.174
When I write some files expected to persist 1.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.310
# 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" 11.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.285
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 enabled and logged in 7.282
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 38.902
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.902
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.691
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.795
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.372
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
36.548
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 8.241
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.066
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.560
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.796
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.666
When I enable persistence 13.460
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.425
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.385
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.336
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.498
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.732
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.181
When I cold reboot the computer 10.135
And the computer reboots Tails 35.240
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.255
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.190
Given I enable persistence 6.672
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.203
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.882
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:7.327
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 7.999
# 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 26.463
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.683
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.927
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
37.575
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 7.893
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.949
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.607
And all notifications have disappeared 7.987
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.074
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 7.428
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.309
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.076
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
39.123
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 7.565
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.593
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.273
And all notifications have disappeared 8.063
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.226
And all tps features are enabled 0.980
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.147
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.068
And I enable persistence 19.598
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.342
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.543
And persistence is enabled 1.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.455
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 7.212
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.702
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.993
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 8.285
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.487
When I enable persistence 6.463
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.682
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 7.949
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.363
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.169
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.569
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.166
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.871
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 8.072
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.013
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 8.914
And all notifications have disappeared 9.410
# 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" 0.187
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.507
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.206
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.329
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.914
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 7.790
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.010
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.357
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.664
When I log in to a new session 10.130
And all notifications have disappeared 8.771
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 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000