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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4271 10 Mar 2026, 11:17

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 23:23.056 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.892
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.420
And I update APT using apt 6.163
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.302
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.608
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 9.644
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.300
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.577
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 9.941
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.434
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.228
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.544
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.790
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.238
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
32.416
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 8.624
And the system is very low on memory 3.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.980
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.193
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.564
And I free up some memory 0.976
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.693
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 9.890
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And all tps features are active 1.345
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.359
When I disable the first tps feature 3.167
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.720
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.692
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.992
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
14.889
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 8.932
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I disable the first tps feature 3.029
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.073
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 8.038
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I disable the first tps feature 3.176
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.648
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.875
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 7.447
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 17.126
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.387
When I write some files expected to persist 1.438
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.055
# 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" 13.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:30.376
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 7.863
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 17.305
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.315
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.935
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 22.751
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.645
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.151
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.086
Tags: @product
46.820
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.560
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.577
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.862
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 9.573
When I enable persistence 15.879
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.858
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.355
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.067
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.273
When I cold reboot the computer 10.685
And the computer reboots Tails 39.975
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 9.336
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.328
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.445
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
2:24.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.588
# 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 29.908
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.183
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:19.313
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
42.331
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 8.835
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.624
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.244
And all notifications have disappeared 8.496
When I delete the persistent partition 3.518
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.179
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.983
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.475
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
45.662
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 9.209
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.071
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.724
And all notifications have disappeared 8.249
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.878
And all tps features are enabled 1.681
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.365
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
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 34.704
And I enable persistence 21.897
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.442
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.539
And persistence is enabled 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.841
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.902
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.070
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.223
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.649
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.129
When I enable persistence 8.363
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.110
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.018
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 7.745
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.577
When I try to enable persistence 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.398
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.376
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.187
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.676
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 8.401
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.691
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 12.580
And all notifications have disappeared 9.640
# 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" 0.391
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.652
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.266
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.638
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.189
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 8.172
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.580
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.330
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.633
When I log in to a new session 11.996
And all notifications have disappeared 9.630
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.891
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000