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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4359 22 Apr 2026, 11:25

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 24:19.221 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.888
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 1:25.484
And I update APT using apt 8.124
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.357
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 9.713
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.168
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.442
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 9.500
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.376
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.174
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.523
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.075
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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35.046
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.094
And the system is very low on memory 8.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.349
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.594
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.130
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.798
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.533
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.865
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 9.031
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.444
And all tps features are active 1.312
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.133
When I disable the first tps feature 3.153
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.411
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.304
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.385
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
14.784
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 8.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 3.115
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.686
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 7.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.547
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.954
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.152
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 8.660
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 19.009
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.304
When I write some files expected to persist 1.543
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.656
# 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" 13.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.546
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 8.426
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.609
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.063
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.060
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 23.532
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.466
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
49.152
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.095
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.170
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.732
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.304
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.687
When I enable persistence 17.721
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.693
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.894
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.626
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.826
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 6.499
And the computer reboots Tails 37.243
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.322
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
Given I enable persistence 7.559
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.092
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.262
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.760
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:20.878
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 9.192
# 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 28.539
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.214
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.310
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
49.790
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 9.485
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.584
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.373
And all notifications have disappeared 9.504
When I delete the persistent partition 3.320
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.580
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 8.374
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.162
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.409
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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46.940
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 9.320
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.106
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.476
And all notifications have disappeared 8.596
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.346
And all tps features are enabled 1.548
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:13.581
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
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 35.948
And I enable persistence 24.727
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.415
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.605
And persistence is enabled 1.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.909
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 7.557
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.769
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.333
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 8.864
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.061
When I enable persistence 7.411
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.311
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 8.790
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.629
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.322
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.567
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.148
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.706
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 8.034
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.993
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 12.687
And all notifications have disappeared 9.809
# 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" 0.336
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.478
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.182
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.609
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.961
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 8.804
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.525
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.233
When I log in to a new session 12.356
And all notifications have disappeared 8.537
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.889
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000