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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4237 17 Feb 2026, 14:28

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 22:8.261 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.889
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 1:51.407
And I update APT using apt 6.255
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.331
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.119
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 9.163
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.463
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.916
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 22.491
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.306
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.505
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.572
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.221
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
31.639
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 8.251
And the system is very low on memory 3.220
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.160
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.717
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.384
And I free up some memory 0.908
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.360
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.483
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 8.603
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.342
And all tps features are active 1.565
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.245
When I disable the first tps feature 2.729
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.467
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.156
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.976
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.649
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 7.852
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I disable the first tps feature 2.620
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.092
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.140
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.760
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.611
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.934
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.311
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 7.914
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.954
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.206
When I write some files expected to persist 1.275
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.633
# 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" 12.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.650
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 8.478
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.097
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.369
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.208
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.691
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.479
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
43.200
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 9.071
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.779
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.820
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 9.073
When I enable persistence 15.309
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.797
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.231
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.513
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.343
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.591
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.010
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.214
When I cold reboot the computer 10.993
And the computer reboots Tails 37.802
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 7.114
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.104
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.232
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.762
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
2:8.999
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 8.295
# 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 25.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.722
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.536
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
40.392
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 8.283
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.110
Then persistence is disabled 0.138
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.686
And all notifications have disappeared 8.721
When I delete the persistent partition 2.903
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.191
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 8.156
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.453
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.176
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
42.801
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 7.782
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.175
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.250
And all notifications have disappeared 8.447
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.272
And all tps features are enabled 1.427
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.045
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 31.197
And I enable persistence 21.695
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.641
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.641
And persistence is enabled 1.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.423
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 8.205
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.587
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.869
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 7.759
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.927
When I enable persistence 7.195
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.838
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 7.851
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.695
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.998
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.382
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.477
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 8.048
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.047
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 12.817
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" 0.345
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.641
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.476
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.060
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 7.815
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.527
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.236
When I log in to a new session 10.449
And all notifications have disappeared 8.901
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.634
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000