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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4298 27 Mar 2026, 18:17

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 22:16.122 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.249
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 1:50.588
And I update APT using apt 6.394
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.859
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 9.394
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.972
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And persistence is disabled 0.148
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.071
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 8.824
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.207
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.035
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.559
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.721
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
31.027
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 7.719
And the system is very low on memory 3.856
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.362
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.194
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.409
And I free up some memory 0.813
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.248
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 8.717
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And all tps features are active 1.229
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.148
When I disable the first tps feature 2.593
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.923
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.760
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
13.074
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 7.781
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.027
When I enable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.038
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.111
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 7.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.573
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.897
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.385
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 7.260
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.663
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.244
When I write some files expected to persist 1.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.004
# 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" 12.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.091
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 7.717
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.715
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.104
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.493
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.243
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 23.150
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
Tags: @product
40.098
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 8.420
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.898
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.440
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 8.790
When I enable persistence 13.925
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.360
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.070
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.352
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.520
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.534
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 10.290
And the computer reboots Tails 37.652
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.268
Given I enable persistence 7.389
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.251
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.042
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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2:10.307
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 8.585
# 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 27.309
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.975
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.918
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.571
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 7.890
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.356
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.866
And all notifications have disappeared 8.341
When I delete the persistent partition 2.673
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.465
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 7.612
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.491
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.067
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
42.601
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 7.984
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.460
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.290
And all notifications have disappeared 8.138
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.364
And all tps features are enabled 1.042
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.478
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 33.256
And I enable persistence 20.398
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.388
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.627
And persistence is enabled 1.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.099
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.237
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.350
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.337
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 8.450
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.332
When I enable persistence 6.705
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.747
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 7.731
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.851
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.008
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.433
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.758
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 8.024
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.665
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.084
And all notifications have disappeared 8.437
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.184
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.674
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.094
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 7.730
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.214
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.787
When I log in to a new session 11.268
And all notifications have disappeared 8.276
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.479
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000