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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4246 23 Feb 2026, 12:10

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 25:39.028 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.560
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 1:53.540
And I update APT using apt 7.575
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.365
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.053
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 9.319
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.029
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.841
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 9.186
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.214
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.475
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.648
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.634
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.195
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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36.211
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 7.412
And the system is very low on memory 8.559
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.186
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.452
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.135
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.401
And I free up some memory 0.905
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.601
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.633
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 8.958
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.399
And all tps features are active 1.466
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.364
When I disable the first tps feature 3.056
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.336
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.752
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.989
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
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13.841
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 8.226
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.128
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.679
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.900
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 7.923
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.799
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.975
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.698
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 7.451
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.445
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.383
When I write some files expected to persist 1.291
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.004
# 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" 13.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.090
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 7.933
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 18.137
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.254
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.363
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.468
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 23.200
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.474
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
51.673
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 8.865
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.301
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.719
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.795
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 9.114
When I enable persistence 20.780
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.423
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.096
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.391
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.347
# 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 26.597
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 10.998
And the computer reboots Tails 40.064
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.302
Given I enable persistence 7.640
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.438
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:23.518
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 8.640
# 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 31.528
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.481
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.452
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
50.975
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 8.181
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.752
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.664
And all notifications have disappeared 9.164
When I delete the persistent partition 2.735
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.559
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 8.245
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.885
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.104
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
51.291
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 8.701
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.150
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.036
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.322
And all notifications have disappeared 8.635
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.568
And all tps features are enabled 1.401
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.758
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 40.857
And I enable persistence 26.835
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.942
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.531
And persistence is enabled 1.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.998
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 7.663
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.719
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.552
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 8.758
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.530
When I enable persistence 7.228
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.334
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 8.109
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.669
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.106
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.521
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.986
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 7.848
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.846
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 12.128
And all notifications have disappeared 9.109
# 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" 0.158
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.613
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.231
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.502
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.751
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 8.368
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.672
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.313
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.005
When I log in to a new session 12.214
And all notifications have disappeared 8.531
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.594
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000