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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4284 16 Mar 2026, 13:10

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 21:40.692 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.561
And I update APT using apt 6.208
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.509
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 9.116
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.859
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.198
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.257
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.510
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.800
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.877
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
28.339
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 7.646
And the system is very low on memory 3.028
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.200
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.428
And I free up some memory 0.913
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.823
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.884
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 8.767
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 1.264
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.141
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.279
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.813
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.619
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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14.245
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 7.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 3.074
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 3.026
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.193
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 7.467
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.536
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.990
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.878
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 7.803
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 17.041
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.325
When I write some files expected to persist 1.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.712
# 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" 12.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:22.638
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 enabled and logged in 7.831
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 16.414
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.212
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.834
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 22.509
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
Tags: @product
39.804
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 8.614
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.167
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.398
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 8.924
When I enable persistence 13.227
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.801
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.535
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.313
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.567
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.256
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 10.294
And the computer reboots Tails 36.109
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.400
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.286
Given I enable persistence 7.306
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.100
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.303
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.263
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:10.530
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.375
# 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 27.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.336
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.132
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.405
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 7.583
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.668
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.983
And all notifications have disappeared 9.010
When I delete the persistent partition 2.676
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.190
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 7.434
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.042
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.654
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.840
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
41.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.761
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.628
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.033
And all notifications have disappeared 8.326
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.241
And all tps features are enabled 1.027
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.656
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 30.316
And I enable persistence 19.722
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.514
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.569
And persistence is enabled 1.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.446
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 7.232
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.680
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.423
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 8.579
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.060
When I enable persistence 7.014
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.035
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.707
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 7.701
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.225
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.540
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.464
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.201
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.563
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 7.636
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.336
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.520
And all notifications have disappeared 9.427
# 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" 0.145
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.465
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.194
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.413
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.495
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 7.766
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.693
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.302
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.046
When I log in to a new session 11.093
And all notifications have disappeared 8.037
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.358
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000