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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4285 16 Mar 2026, 16:27

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 25:26.058 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.535
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 1:27.991
And I update APT using apt 8.042
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.323
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.312
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.878
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.498
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.906
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 9.276
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.047
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 33.277
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.540
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.539
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
35.917
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 7.517
And the system is very low on memory 8.448
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.246
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.424
And I free up some memory 0.873
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.567
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.687
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 9.165
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
And all tps features are active 1.402
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.541
When I disable the first tps feature 2.812
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.493
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.855
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
14.390
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 enabled and logged in 8.115
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 3.258
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.708
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 8.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 3.274
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.746
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.740
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 8.103
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 18.162
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.239
When I write some files expected to persist 1.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.550
# 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" 13.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.796
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 8.398
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 18.105
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.089
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.703
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.644
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
48.767
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 9.154
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.633
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.573
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 9.889
When I enable persistence 24.058
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.839
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.816
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.463
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.428
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.741
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.690
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.220
When I cold reboot the computer 11.322
And the computer reboots Tails 43.238
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 7.538
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.127
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.315
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.160
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:31.946
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 9.044
# 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 42.857
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.162
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.546
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
50.004
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 9.212
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.699
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.018
And all notifications have disappeared 9.639
When I delete the persistent partition 2.884
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.523
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 8.598
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.977
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.659
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
54.126
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.604
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.135
When I try to enable persistence 1.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.049
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.438
And all notifications have disappeared 8.330
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.109
And all tps features are enabled 1.610
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.958
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 39.887
And I enable persistence 25.717
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.894
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.685
And persistence is enabled 1.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.852
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 7.797
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.518
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.740
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.123
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.283
When I enable persistence 8.227
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.070
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 8.914
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.668
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.053
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.556
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.118
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 8.849
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.259
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 13.120
And all notifications have disappeared 11.296
# 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" 0.203
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.456
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.354
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.378
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 8.247
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.079
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.413
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.321
When I log in to a new session 12.752
And all notifications have disappeared 10.285
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.133
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000