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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4353 21 Apr 2026, 07:40

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 22:2.003 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.234
And I update APT using apt 6.193
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.258
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.937
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 9.097
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.636
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.308
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 9.277
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.474
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.482
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.937
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.194
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
31.800
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 8.123
And the system is very low on memory 4.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.225
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.555
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.621
And I free up some memory 0.885
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.730
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.475
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 8.426
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And all tps features are active 1.621
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.285
When I disable the first tps feature 3.067
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.517
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.014
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.955
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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13.543
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 enabled and logged in 7.562
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.573
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.969
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.346
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 7.708
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.565
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.878
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.069
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 7.685
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 19.963
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.251
When I write some files expected to persist 1.319
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.536
# 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" 12.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.839
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 7.743
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 18.866
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.177
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.214
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 23.039
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
Tags: @product
39.729
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 8.528
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.756
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.007
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 8.495
When I enable persistence 13.561
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.796
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.774
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.243
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.569
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.102
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 10.587
And the computer reboots Tails 39.966
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 7.067
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
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 10.377
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:10.347
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 8.668
# 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 28.660
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.609
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.909
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
37.443
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 7.917
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.830
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.420
And all notifications have disappeared 8.195
When I delete the persistent partition 2.620
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.276
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 8.160
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.470
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.377
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
42.908
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 8.155
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.040
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.057
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.668
And all notifications have disappeared 7.991
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 1.371
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.059
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.065
And I enable persistence 19.840
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.570
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.677
And persistence is enabled 1.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.267
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 7.097
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.620
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.853
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 8.371
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.838
When I enable persistence 6.777
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.216
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 8.011
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.487
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.385
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.391
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.212
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.811
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 7.698
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.178
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 11.577
And all notifications have disappeared 9.550
# 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" 0.320
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.494
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.150
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 7.821
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.886
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.740
When I log in to a new session 10.344
And all notifications have disappeared 10.410
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.684
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000