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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4258 27 Feb 2026, 11:19

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 21:1.267 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.194
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 1:17.258
And I update APT using apt 5.862
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.237
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.326
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 8.598
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.608
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.209
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 8.714
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.246
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.417
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.365
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.857
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.301
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 7.573
And the system is very low on memory 3.376
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.298
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.503
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.341
And I free up some memory 0.803
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.262
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.588
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 8.154
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And all tps features are active 1.124
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.555
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.928
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.358
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
12.869
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 enabled and logged in 7.485
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I disable the first tps feature 2.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.865
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 7.240
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.562
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.015
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 enabled and logged in 7.239
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 15.697
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.221
When I write some files expected to persist 1.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.809
# 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" 11.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.090
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 7.523
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 15.439
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.289
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.218
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 22.827
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.445
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.107
Tags: @product
38.032
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 8.569
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.522
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.063
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 8.790
When I enable persistence 14.217
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.272
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.428
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.294
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.339
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.598
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.448
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
When I cold reboot the computer 10.285
And the computer reboots Tails 37.384
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 7.198
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.205
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.780
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:3.968
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 7.971
# 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 26.423
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.376
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.179
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
37.866
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 7.910
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.371
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.281
And all notifications have disappeared 8.087
When I delete the persistent partition 2.703
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.600
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 7.464
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.307
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.547
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
39.904
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 7.746
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.178
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.198
And all notifications have disappeared 8.152
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.243
And all tps features are enabled 1.040
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.525
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 31.909
And I enable persistence 19.370
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.924
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 1.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.907
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 7.288
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.067
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.020
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.260
When I enable persistence 6.744
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.542
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 7.613
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.476
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.481
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.354
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.718
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 7.489
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.000
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.618
And all notifications have disappeared 9.857
# 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" 0.460
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.451
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.224
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.311
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.656
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 7.754
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.839
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.334
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.878
When I log in to a new session 10.262
And all notifications have disappeared 8.038
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.532
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000