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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4305 30 Mar 2026, 15:13

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 22:51.822 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.476
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 1:50.561
And I update APT using apt 6.638
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.380
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.520
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 9.218
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.133
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.621
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.593
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.499
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.743
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
30.304
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 7.623
And the system is very low on memory 4.432
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.304
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.131
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.419
And I free up some memory 0.841
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.353
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.517
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 8.805
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
And all tps features are active 1.241
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.216
When I disable the first tps feature 2.598
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.351
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.076
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.571
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
13.718
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 8.223
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.566
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.382
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 7.551
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 2.698
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.900
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.536
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 7.772
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 40.392
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.326
When I write some files expected to persist 1.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.986
# 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" 12.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.865
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 7.752
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 16.740
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.854
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.349
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 23.306
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.429
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
40.429
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 8.826
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.774
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.543
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 8.868
When I enable persistence 13.664
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.626
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.655
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.373
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" 4.527
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.494
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 10.805
And the computer reboots Tails 38.069
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 7.638
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.306
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.243
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:10.639
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 9.314
# 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 27.013
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.605
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.951
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
41.097
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 8.255
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.324
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.533
And all notifications have disappeared 8.737
When I delete the persistent partition 2.787
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.467
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 enabled and logged in 8.625
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.128
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.399
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
42.742
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 8.080
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.929
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.847
And all notifications have disappeared 8.350
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.420
And all tps features are enabled 1.629
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.117
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 31.710
And I enable persistence 19.167
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.952
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 1.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.678
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 7.016
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.129
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.255
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 8.423
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.924
When I enable persistence 6.782
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.216
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.634
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.377
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.669
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.670
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.206
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.022
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 7.957
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.748
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 11.756
And all notifications have disappeared 8.852
# 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" 0.169
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.614
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.668
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.958
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.312
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.242
When I log in to a new session 11.549
And all notifications have disappeared 9.254
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.878
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000