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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4269 09 Mar 2026, 13:55

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 22:11.978 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.752
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 1:21.723
And I update APT using apt 6.685
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.302
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.475
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 8.857
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.806
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 9.125
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.681
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.593
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.958
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.644
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.262
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
30.824
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 7.955
And the system is very low on memory 4.201
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.750
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.417
And I free up some memory 0.983
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.633
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.318
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 8.590
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.400
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.427
When I disable the first tps feature 2.606
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.298
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.862
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
13.845
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 8.157
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.109
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.610
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.707
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 7.868
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.094
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.094
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 8.074
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 17.884
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.288
When I write some files expected to persist 1.412
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.563
# 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" 12.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.636
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 8.605
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 17.605
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.097
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.097
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 22.321
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.458
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
Tags: @product
41.364
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 9.789
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.907
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.573
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 9.081
When I enable persistence 14.945
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.934
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.904
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.396
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.253
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.592
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.791
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 10.896
And the computer reboots Tails 39.466
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.258
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 7.045
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
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 11.120
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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2:10.622
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 enabled and logged in 8.531
# 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 26.308
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.490
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.632
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
41.658
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 9.420
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.268
Then persistence is disabled 0.210
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.803
And all notifications have disappeared 8.612
When I delete the persistent partition 2.917
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.773
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.900
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.424
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.124
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
45.727
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 8.888
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.081
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.601
And all notifications have disappeared 8.259
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.343
And all tps features are enabled 1.142
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.689
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 32.500
And I enable persistence 20.610
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.342
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.551
And persistence is enabled 1.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.675
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 7.132
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.007
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.237
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 8.861
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.180
When I enable persistence 7.173
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.098
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.671
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 8.435
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.249
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.901
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.340
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.993
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 7.974
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.208
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.135
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.781
And all notifications have disappeared 9.424
# 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" 0.223
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.414
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.453
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.528
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 8.625
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.607
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.435
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.779
When I log in to a new session 10.974
And all notifications have disappeared 9.278
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.689
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000