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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4286 20 Mar 2026, 14:09

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 21:17.164 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.847
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 1:17.987
And I update APT using apt 5.584
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.265
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.627
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 8.651
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.846
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.868
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 logged in 8.281
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.894
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.431
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.587
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.036
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.088
Tags: @product
27.759
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 7.543
And the system is very low on memory 3.285
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.577
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 0.906
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.831
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.194
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 8.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
And all tps features are active 1.232
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.005
When I disable the first tps feature 3.068
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.234
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.296
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.730
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 7.334
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.551
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.087
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 7.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.553
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.920
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.902
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 7.404
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 15.608
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.186
When I write some files expected to persist 1.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.568
# 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" 12.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.103
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 7.635
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 16.093
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 14.660
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.367
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 23.578
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.367
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
Tags: @product
40.347
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.580
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.110
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.765
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 9.083
When I enable persistence 13.903
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.043
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.583
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.427
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" 4.530
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.825
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 9.029
And the computer reboots Tails 36.589
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.186
Given I enable persistence 7.370
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.329
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.861
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:11.598
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 enabled and logged in 8.516
# 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 26.561
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.831
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.922
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.705
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 8.536
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.871
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.252
And all notifications have disappeared 8.693
When I delete the persistent partition 2.791
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.162
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 7.938
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.750
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.167
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
42.237
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 7.712
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.130
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.001
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.585
And all notifications have disappeared 8.101
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.322
And all tps features are enabled 1.006
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.345
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 30.973
And I enable persistence 20.456
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.706
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.601
And persistence is enabled 1.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.417
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.655
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.240
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.902
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 7.907
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.331
When I enable persistence 6.772
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.221
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 7.585
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.134
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.528
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.347
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.275
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 7.746
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.050
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.421
And all notifications have disappeared 10.138
# 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" 0.253
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.493
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.184
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.733
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.064
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 7.950
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.656
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.123
When I log in to a new session 10.237
And all notifications have disappeared 9.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.453
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000