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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4281 15 Mar 2026, 11:14

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 23:30.078 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.745
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 1:28.054
And I update APT using apt 6.198
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.401
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.233
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 9.228
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.912
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.482
And persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.603
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.295
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.416
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.894
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.568
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.261
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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31.307
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.405
And the system is very low on memory 3.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.309
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.289
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.166
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.438
And I free up some memory 1.040
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.880
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.598
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 9.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.428
And all tps features are active 1.238
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.189
When I disable the first tps feature 2.535
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.296
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.596
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.638
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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14.347
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 enabled and logged in 8.655
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.197
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.341
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 7.882
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 3.112
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.036
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.168
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 7.815
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 17.072
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.252
When I write some files expected to persist 1.397
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.797
# 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" 13.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.827
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 16.943
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.375
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.979
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.687
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.079
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43.259
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 9.639
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.701
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.091
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.104
When I enable persistence 15.526
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.014
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.286
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.306
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.615
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.780
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 10.316
And the computer reboots Tails 41.507
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.402
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.257
Given I enable persistence 8.420
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.222
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.555
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:29.062
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 8.614
# 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 30.648
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.556
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:22.415
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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41.179
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 8.590
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.386
Then persistence is disabled 0.160
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.006
And all notifications have disappeared 8.498
When I delete the persistent partition 3.149
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.691
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 8.345
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.425
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.574
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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45.115
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 8.581
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.975
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.538
And all notifications have disappeared 8.215
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 1.143
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.853
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.907
And I enable persistence 21.289
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.148
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.615
And persistence is enabled 1.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.307
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 7.687
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.981
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.999
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 9.232
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.180
When I enable persistence 8.230
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.100
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.482
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 8.892
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.940
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.112
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.500
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.122
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.032
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 13.055
And all notifications have disappeared 9.847
# 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" 0.252
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.592
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.212
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.491
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 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.020
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 8.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.955
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.381
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.130
When I log in to a new session 10.621
And all notifications have disappeared 9.499
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000