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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4253 25 Feb 2026, 11:38

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 25:45.605 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.978
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 1:23.025
And I update APT using apt 6.719
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.258
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.746
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 9.090
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.702
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 25.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.185
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 9.505
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.509
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.534
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.512
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.001
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.678
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.239
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
38.640
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 8.026
And the system is very low on memory 11.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.299
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.486
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.139
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.797
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.306
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.556
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 9.031
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.493
And all tps features are active 1.330
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.966
When I disable the first tps feature 3.123
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.407
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.681
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.882
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.452
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 7.757
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I disable the first tps feature 2.689
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.673
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 7.909
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.710
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.848
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.830
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 7.964
And the network is plugged 0.147
And Tor is ready 18.241
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.495
When I write some files expected to persist 1.325
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.523
# 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" 13.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.111
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 7.886
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 19.576
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.683
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.097
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 24.125
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
49.179
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 9.348
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.354
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.580
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 9.176
When I enable persistence 27.952
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.572
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.063
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.471
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.311
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.860
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
When I cold reboot the computer 11.022
And the computer reboots Tails 39.927
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.394
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.223
Given I enable persistence 7.749
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.709
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:49.955
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 8.900
# 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 45.823
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.115
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:19.253
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product
56.801
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 9.678
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.149
Then persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.656
And all notifications have disappeared 9.185
When I delete the persistent partition 2.617
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.873
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 7.948
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.670
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.867
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
46.365
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 8.571
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.193
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.542
And all notifications have disappeared 8.118
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.382
And all tps features are enabled 1.145
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.829
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 38.522
And I enable persistence 27.598
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.166
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is enabled 1.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.852
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 7.704
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.486
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.579
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 8.645
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.931
When I enable persistence 6.938
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.577
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 8.471
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.282
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.623
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.474
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.207
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.526
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 7.667
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.653
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 13.221
And all notifications have disappeared 9.359
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.764
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.245
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.684
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.309
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 8.193
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.843
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.377
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 7.210
When I log in to a new session 12.133
And all notifications have disappeared 7.775
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.475
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000