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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4276 13 Mar 2026, 00:20

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 26:52.019 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.563
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 1:25.637
And I update APT using apt 7.690
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.383
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.769
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 8.914
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.526
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.126
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 9.093
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.760
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.289
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 41.156
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.499
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.960
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.112
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
35.704
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 7.894
And the system is very low on memory 9.842
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.943
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.407
And I free up some memory 0.883
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.355
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.167
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 22.029
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And all tps features are active 1.399
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.197
When I disable the first tps feature 2.613
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.753
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.509
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.278
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 7.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 2.644
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.091
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.526
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.920
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 7.150
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.679
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.888
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:43.394
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 7.430
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.178
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.302
When I write some files expected to persist 1.279
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 2:4.279
# 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" 12.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.433
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 7.726
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 17.360
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.152
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.133
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.246
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.456
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.085
Tags: @product
50.154
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.020
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.149
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.435
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:4.000
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 8.566
When I enable persistence 27.852
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.612
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.018
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.464
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.378
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.553
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.445
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
When I cold reboot the computer 7.449
And the computer reboots Tails 37.017
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.357
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
Given I enable persistence 7.510
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.276
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.900
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:26.478
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 8.778
# 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 38.468
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.842
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.244
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
53.408
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 8.431
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.122
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.906
And all notifications have disappeared 8.796
When I delete the persistent partition 2.672
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.892
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 7.836
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.782
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.937
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
49.005
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 8.284
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.468
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.842
And all notifications have disappeared 8.356
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.301
And all tps features are enabled 1.382
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.273
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 47.191
And I enable persistence 27.894
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.624
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.593
And persistence is enabled 1.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.605
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 7.538
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.434
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.893
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 8.620
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.635
When I enable persistence 6.825
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.846
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 8.305
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.011
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.531
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.414
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.088
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 7.931
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.315
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I log in to a new session 13.713
And all notifications have disappeared 10.194
# 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" 0.172
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.587
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.222
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.545
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.011
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 8.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.873
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.347
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.553
When I log in to a new session 12.166
And all notifications have disappeared 9.198
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.480
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000