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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4273 12 Mar 2026, 11:08

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 22:14.065 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.410
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 1:24.871
And I update APT using apt 5.981
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.395
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.846
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 9.164
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.729
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.417
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.225
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 9.303
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.442
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.964
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.536
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.426
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.249
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
30.821
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 8.299
And the system is very low on memory 3.362
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.186
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.058
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.184
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.468
And I free up some memory 1.004
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.750
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.844
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 8.964
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And all tps features are active 1.276
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.253
When I disable the first tps feature 2.553
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.089
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.920
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
13.611
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 7.702
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 3.010
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.001
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 7.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.478
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.894
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.157
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 7.852
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 16.633
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.408
When I write some files expected to persist 1.272
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.190
# 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" 12.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.237
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 7.671
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 16.569
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.362
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.730
And I capture all network traffic 0.013
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 23.126
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118
Tags: @product
39.993
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.906
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.849
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:52.405
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 9.021
When I enable persistence 14.395
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.469
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.719
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.384
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.334
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.572
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.415
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
When I cold reboot the computer 9.419
And the computer reboots Tails 37.414
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
Given I enable persistence 7.792
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.104
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.267
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.128
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
2:14.769
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 8.530
# 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 25.034
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.925
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.657
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
38.765
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 8.142
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.444
Then persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.479
And all notifications have disappeared 8.369
When I delete the persistent partition 2.676
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.464
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 8.165
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.583
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.421
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
40.970
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 7.957
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.772
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.346
And all notifications have disappeared 8.082
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.332
And all tps features are enabled 1.042
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.462
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 31.422
And I enable persistence 20.893
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.634
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.684
And persistence is enabled 1.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.035
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 7.073
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.418
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.684
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 8.300
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.164
When I enable persistence 7.061
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.638
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 8.418
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.913
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.977
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.514
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.148
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.998
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 7.678
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.737
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 11.048
And all notifications have disappeared 9.280
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.111
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.382
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.719
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 7.592
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.352
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.398
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.695
When I log in to a new session 10.931
And all notifications have disappeared 9.309
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.445
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000