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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4291 24 Mar 2026, 11:32

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 26:24.985 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:45.289
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:29.206
And I update APT using apt 8.259
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.471
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.354
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 9.596
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.874
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:22.051
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 10.272
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.566
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.680
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.505
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.666
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.911
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
43.073
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 8.762
And the system is very low on memory 14.521
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.733
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.922
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.191
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.486
And I free up some memory 1.009
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.393
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.099
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 22.963
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
And all tps features are active 1.603
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.604
When I disable the first tps feature 3.151
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.446
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.094
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.530
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
14.183
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 8.195
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I disable the first tps feature 3.042
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.136
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 7.764
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.154
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.011
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.276
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 7.807
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 43.184
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.384
When I write some files expected to persist 1.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.335
# 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" 13.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.624
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 7.723
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.871
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.552
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.263
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 43.301
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
50.574
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.016
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.328
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.898
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.745
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 8.877
When I enable persistence 22.607
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.486
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.301
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.379
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.594
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.544
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 6.354
And the computer reboots Tails 40.814
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 8.485
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.096
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.346
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.725
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:23.707
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 enabled and logged in 8.642
# 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 36.480
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.744
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.897
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
50.606
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 8.630
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.897
Then persistence is disabled 0.142
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.245
And all notifications have disappeared 9.380
When I delete the persistent partition 2.879
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.067
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 8.613
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.085
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.988
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
50.937
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 8.560
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.356
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.417
And all notifications have disappeared 8.449
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.327
And all tps features are enabled 1.228
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.491
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 37.343
And I enable persistence 29.133
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.376
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.637
And persistence is enabled 1.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.232
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 7.964
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.697
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.370
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 8.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.246
When I enable persistence 7.343
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.587
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.184
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.746
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.549
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.231
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.585
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 7.804
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.127
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.641
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 13.264
And all notifications have disappeared 9.632
# 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" 0.228
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.671
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.262
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.477
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.850
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 7.719
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.463
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.389
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.861
When I log in to a new session 12.825
And all notifications have disappeared 8.651
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.836
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000