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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4236 17 Feb 2026, 14:24

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 28:19.262 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.983
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 1:55.547
And I update APT using apt 6.036
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.312
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.384
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.753
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.149
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.251
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.648
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.897
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.630
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.881
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.406
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
36.059
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.238
And the system is very low on memory 1.213
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.848
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.257
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.549
And I free up some memory 1.052
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.117
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.173
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.966
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And all tps features are active 2.186
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.359
When I disable the first tps feature 3.184
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.768
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.393
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
16.248
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.943
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.115
When I disable the first tps feature 2.669
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 3.074
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.725
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 10.122
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 3.175
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.220
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.671
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.098
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 14.183
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 2.000
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.398
# 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" 18.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.582
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 10.521
And the network is plugged 0.240
And Tor is ready 9.939
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.104
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.152
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 12.693
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.438
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
40.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.979
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.897
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.606
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.953
When I enable persistence 12.362
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.685
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.062
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.516
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.420
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.721
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.635
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
When I cold reboot the computer 6.348
And the computer reboots Tails 43.476
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.429
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.388
Given I enable persistence 10.445
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.108
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.442
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.268
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:23.528
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.723
# 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 20.988
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.714
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.362
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
42.061
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.494
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.466
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.225
And all notifications have disappeared 10.069
When I delete the persistent partition 3.119
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.377
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.224
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.973
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.406
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
48.053
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.930
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.816
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.094
And all notifications have disappeared 10.034
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.447
And all tps features are enabled 2.368
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:41.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
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 5:0.631
And I enable persistence 26.057
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.443
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.676
And persistence is enabled 2.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.849
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 9.502
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.611
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.364
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 9.808
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.146
When I enable persistence 11.969
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.759
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 10.149
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.460
When I try to enable persistence 1.354
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.969
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.902
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.330
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.224
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.693
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.815
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 13.040
And all notifications have disappeared 10.600
# 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" 0.253
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.604
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.302
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.957
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.289
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.420
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.155
When I log in to a new session 11.981
And all notifications have disappeared 9.463
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.798
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000