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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4244 21 Feb 2026, 12:02

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 31:55.071 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.258
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:53.893
And I update APT using apt 7.996
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.325
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.225
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 11.959
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.533
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.382
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.662
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.042
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.217
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.550
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.188
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.630
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.527
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
37.369
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.936
And the system is very low on memory 4.538
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.257
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.658
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.127
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.504
And I free up some memory 0.975
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.754
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.974
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 13.085
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
And all tps features are active 2.114
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.346
When I disable the first tps feature 3.122
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.999
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.705
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
17.187
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 11.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 3.091
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.524
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.676
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 10.280
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 3.088
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.088
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.598
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 10.059
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 43.550
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.578
When I write some files expected to persist 1.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.576
# 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" 17.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:35.724
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 11.166
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 18.512
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.508
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.057
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 23.424
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.446
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
50.603
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.081
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.761
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.941
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 13.030
When I enable persistence 21.685
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.821
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.082
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.566
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.435
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.764
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.523
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 10.314
And the computer reboots Tails 43.074
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.431
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.383
Given I enable persistence 10.859
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.413
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.180
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:29.650
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 12.466
# 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 30.881
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.339
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.359
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.631
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 11.192
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.650
Then persistence is disabled 0.169
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.353
And all notifications have disappeared 10.895
When I delete the persistent partition 2.932
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.777
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 10.886
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.480
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.065
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
56.898
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 11.404
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.747
And all notifications have disappeared 9.444
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.437
And all tps features are enabled 2.282
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:2.300
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:17.137
And I enable persistence 30.416
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.560
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.760
And persistence is enabled 2.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.272
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.962
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.650
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.614
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 12.681
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.553
When I enable persistence 10.864
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.794
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 12.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.517
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.045
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.771
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.305
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.427
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 10.984
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.072
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 12.463
And all notifications have disappeared 10.932
# 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" 0.197
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.574
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.289
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.047
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.481
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 10.484
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.817
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.424
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.571
When I log in to a new session 13.902
And all notifications have disappeared 9.409
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.445
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000