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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4278 13 Mar 2026, 11:21

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 26:13.076 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.865
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:55.266
And I update APT using apt 6.610
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.634
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.558
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 9.302
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.765
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.201
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.017
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.589
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.504
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.554
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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39.720
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.371
And the system is very low on memory 8.611
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.388
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.102
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.442
And I free up some memory 1.426
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.761
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.618
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 22.525
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.478
And all tps features are active 1.238
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.201
When I disable the first tps feature 2.604
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.273
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.360
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.477
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
14.042
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 7.654
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 3.310
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.613
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.866
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 7.854
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 2.768
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.974
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.286
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 21.993
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 19.631
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.344
When I write some files expected to persist 1.392
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.852
# 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" 14.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.075
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.545
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 18.918
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.854
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.448
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 23.509
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
48.143
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 9.318
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.403
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.347
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 9.513
When I enable persistence 21.041
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.795
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.050
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.504
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.307
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.023
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 9.936
And the computer reboots Tails 41.160
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.259
Given I enable persistence 7.395
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.825
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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2:33.930
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 8.613
# 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 36.422
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.153
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:20.785
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
46.016
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 8.741
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.287
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.990
And all notifications have disappeared 9.695
When I delete the persistent partition 2.796
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.048
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 8.590
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.976
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.174
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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50.407
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 8.491
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.670
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.801
And all notifications have disappeared 8.353
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.341
And all tps features are enabled 1.304
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.634
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 39.717
And I enable persistence 24.028
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.526
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.577
And persistence is enabled 1.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.911
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 7.687
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.460
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.876
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 9.171
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.517
When I enable persistence 7.188
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.594
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 9.235
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.873
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.473
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.027
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 8.357
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 18.035
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 13.971
And all notifications have disappeared 10.131
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.710
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.227
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.586
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.902
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 8.262
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 20.698
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.618
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.902
When I log in to a new session 12.712
And all notifications have disappeared 10.281
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.118
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000