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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4239 18 Feb 2026, 09:22

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 24:41.796 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.173
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 1:20.150
And I update APT using apt 5.907
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.239
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 8.894
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.142
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 28.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.826
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 8.489
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.016
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 44.764
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.445
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.134
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.630
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.186
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
41.025
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.433
And the system is very low on memory 15.636
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.982
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.959
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.353
And I free up some memory 0.802
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.710
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.601
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 8.481
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.403
And all tps features are active 1.185
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.084
When I disable the first tps feature 2.621
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.248
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.444
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.960
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
13.095
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 7.731
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.027
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 7.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.622
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.826
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.609
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 7.259
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.550
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.192
When I write some files expected to persist 1.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.158
# 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" 12.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.014
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 7.458
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.834
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.294
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.846
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.755
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.496
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
58.569
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 8.407
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.258
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:9.189
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 21.954
When I enable persistence 19.599
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.348
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.695
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.409
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.293
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 9.028
And the computer reboots Tails 38.689
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
Given I enable persistence 7.340
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.860
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:40.277
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 8.460
# 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 50.909
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.387
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.353
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
43.422
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 8.248
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.744
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.704
And all notifications have disappeared 8.515
When I delete the persistent partition 2.719
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.379
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 8.017
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.632
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.419
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
46.531
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 8.152
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.848
And all notifications have disappeared 8.472
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 1.039
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.741
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 39.815
And I enable persistence 27.906
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.045
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.561
And persistence is enabled 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.704
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 7.080
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.118
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.542
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 8.520
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.440
When I enable persistence 6.770
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.293
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 8.164
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.504
When I try to enable persistence 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.133
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.564
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.174
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.689
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 8.278
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.585
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 12.702
And all notifications have disappeared 9.695
# 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" 0.199
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.407
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.401
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.839
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 8.164
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.321
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.034
When I log in to a new session 12.251
And all notifications have disappeared 9.285
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.348
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000