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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4632 21 Sep 2026, 18:46

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 23:24.234 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.150
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.390
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.229
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.077
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.930
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.279
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 21.941
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.891
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.957
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.883
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.149
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
30.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.350
And the system is very low on memory 4.158
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.209
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.295
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.110
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.317
And I free up some memory 0.635
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.985
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.257
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.042
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And all tps features are active 8.612
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.807
When I disable the first tps feature 2.428
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.719
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.859
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.261
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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13.255
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.107
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.036
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.224
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.690
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.466
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.837
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.698
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.834
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.862
When I write some files expected to persist 0.998
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.308
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.647
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.808
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.810
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.224
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.947
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.101
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.076
Tags: @product
39.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.380
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.110
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.805
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.783
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.614
When I enable persistence 23.918
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.207
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.409
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.218
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.275
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.000
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
When I cold reboot the computer 6.110
And the computer reboots Tails 32.256
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.222
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 13.085
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.315
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.010
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:13.624
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.293
# 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 33.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.387
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.411
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.108
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.022
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.026
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.382
And all notifications have disappeared 8.592
When I delete the persistent partition 2.676
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.826
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 22.118
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.707
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.760
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
54.909
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.935
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.637
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.789
And all notifications have disappeared 8.086
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.282
And all tps features are enabled 7.877
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.829
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 1:59.675
And I enable persistence 27.465
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.124
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And persistence is enabled 8.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.296
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
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 7.393
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.353
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.759
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.461
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.437
When I enable persistence 12.650
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.421
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.694
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.758
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.095
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.105
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.127
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.627
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.292
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.638
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.086
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 8.471
And all notifications have disappeared 7.294
# 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" 0.150
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.199
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.104
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.987
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.247
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.822
When I log in to a new session 8.696
And all notifications have disappeared 6.736
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.108
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000