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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4241 18 Feb 2026, 20:03

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 21:36.158 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.828
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 1:20.783
And I update APT using apt 5.897
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.272
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.261
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 9.032
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.807
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.319
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 8.712
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.409
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.574
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.191
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
29.677
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 7.939
And the system is very low on memory 2.990
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.292
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.309
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.947
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.596
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.077
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 8.717
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And all tps features are active 1.219
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.122
When I disable the first tps feature 2.562
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.132
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.883
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.697
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 7.740
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 3.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.447
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.270
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 7.602
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 2.601
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.847
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.819
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 7.589
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 16.668
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.416
When I write some files expected to persist 1.243
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.881
# 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" 11.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.557
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 enabled and logged in 7.660
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 16.428
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.094
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.626
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.002
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
Tags: @product
40.588
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.610
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.142
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.173
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.207
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 8.853
When I enable persistence 13.542
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.385
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.885
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.350
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.600
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.989
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 9.328
And the computer reboots Tails 37.450
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
Given I enable persistence 7.111
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.230
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.288
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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2:11.297
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 8.359
# 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 27.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.347
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.230
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.584
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 8.153
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.356
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.370
And all notifications have disappeared 8.398
When I delete the persistent partition 2.838
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.831
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 7.678
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.594
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.291
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
42.244
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.087
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.117
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.922
And all notifications have disappeared 8.119
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.247
And all tps features are enabled 1.265
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.817
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 32.239
And I enable persistence 20.981
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.218
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.650
And persistence is enabled 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.955
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 6.962
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.463
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.166
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 8.477
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.039
When I enable persistence 6.639
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.250
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 7.957
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.889
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.486
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.223
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.202
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 7.958
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.001
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.208
And all notifications have disappeared 9.601
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.366
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.265
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.501
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 7.757
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.999
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.005
When I log in to a new session 11.302
And all notifications have disappeared 8.656
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.295
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000