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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4287 21 Mar 2026, 11:11

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 22:52.346 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.359
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 1:21.574
And I update APT using apt 6.306
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.332
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.527
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 9.017
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.528
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.220
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.166
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 9.081
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.147
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.533
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.581
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.004
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.292
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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30.356
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 8.161
And the system is very low on memory 3.861
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.160
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.997
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.199
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.516
And I free up some memory 0.988
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.413
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.676
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 8.651
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And all tps features are active 1.452
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.210
When I disable the first tps feature 3.090
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.396
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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13.631
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 7.620
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 3.059
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.096
When I enable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.693
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 7.743
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.145
And I disable the first tps feature 3.059
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.576
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.926
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 8.034
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.669
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.257
When I write some files expected to persist 1.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.740
# 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" 13.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.222
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 7.686
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 17.439
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.774
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.670
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.751
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.468
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
41.228
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 9.234
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.469
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.797
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 9.135
When I enable persistence 15.383
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.722
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.415
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.257
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.586
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.625
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
When I cold reboot the computer 10.921
And the computer reboots Tails 39.672
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.272
Given I enable persistence 8.350
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.326
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.952
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:12.981
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 8.249
# 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 28.331
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.282
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.087
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
40.394
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 8.411
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.798
Then persistence is disabled 0.224
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.194
And all notifications have disappeared 8.462
When I delete the persistent partition 2.900
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.591
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 8.561
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.832
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.910
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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45.563
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 7.991
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.986
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.777
And all notifications have disappeared 8.500
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.295
And all tps features are enabled 1.465
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.092
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 34.289
And I enable persistence 21.347
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.134
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 1.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.205
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 7.476
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.118
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.361
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 8.493
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.482
When I enable persistence 6.934
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.197
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 8.354
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.152
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.160
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.734
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.221
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.002
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 8.196
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.631
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.833
And all notifications have disappeared 9.842
# 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" 0.177
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.417
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.365
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.369
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 8.155
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.255
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.332
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.867
When I log in to a new session 11.210
And all notifications have disappeared 8.841
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.723
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000