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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4279 14 Mar 2026, 11:16

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 23:52.621 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.210
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 1:21.534
And I update APT using apt 6.942
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.404
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.530
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 9.115
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.295
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.475
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 9.553
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.843
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.529
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.669
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.275
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
29.560
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 7.711
And the system is very low on memory 3.856
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.073
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.154
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.406
And I free up some memory 0.873
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.248
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.156
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 9.235
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.348
And all tps features are active 1.399
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.138
When I disable the first tps feature 2.714
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.286
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.155
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.345
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.006
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 8.919
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 3.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.993
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 enabled and logged in 7.638
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 3.165
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.968
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.493
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 7.423
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.743
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.300
When I write some files expected to persist 1.263
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.648
# 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" 13.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.454
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 7.530
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 41.249
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.932
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.504
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 42.450
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
42.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.904
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.727
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.387
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 8.881
When I enable persistence 14.081
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.705
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.157
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.417
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.463
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.575
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.103
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
When I cold reboot the computer 9.827
And the computer reboots Tails 39.793
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 7.647
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.105
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.260
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.463
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:21.211
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 8.397
# 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 30.683
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.850
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.467
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
40.865
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 8.365
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.470
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.918
And all notifications have disappeared 8.888
When I delete the persistent partition 2.741
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.695
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 8.259
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.110
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.999
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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48.498
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 9.148
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.518
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.480
And all notifications have disappeared 8.628
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.977
And all tps features are enabled 1.425
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.865
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 32.891
And I enable persistence 23.789
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.435
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.741
And persistence is enabled 2.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.538
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 7.536
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.372
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.116
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 8.918
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.893
When I enable persistence 7.042
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.253
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 8.290
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.248
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.290
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.569
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.386
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 7.789
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.907
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 0.029
When I log in to a new session 12.268
And all notifications have disappeared 10.613
# 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" 0.159
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.419
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.235
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.548
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.458
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 8.326
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.300
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.397
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.130
When I log in to a new session 10.774
And all notifications have disappeared 8.811
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.515
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000