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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4637 26 Sep 2026, 11:27

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 22:29.923 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.777
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.498
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.354
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.651
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 8.533
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.206
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.409
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 8.488
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.358
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.164
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.138
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.226
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.748
And the system is very low on memory 4.183
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.206
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.359
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.363
And I free up some memory 0.419
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.293
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 8.165
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And all tps features are active 7.610
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.577
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.380
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.224
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.320
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
12.848
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 7.627
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.406
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.160
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 7.730
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.468
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.768
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.995
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 7.555
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 10.657
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.400
When I write some files expected to persist 0.944
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.369
# 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" 11.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.689
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 7.577
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.244
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.155
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.118
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 10.867
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.096
Tags: @product
38.059
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 8.204
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.058
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.918
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.523
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 8.480
When I enable persistence 22.073
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.362
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.925
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.197
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.176
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.444
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.881
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 5.791
And the computer reboots Tails 33.347
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.223
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.101
Given I enable persistence 12.227
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.284
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.691
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:1.457
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 8.060
# 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 25.998
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.108
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.868
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.739
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.993
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.443
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.009
And all notifications have disappeared 8.409
When I delete the persistent partition 2.586
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.640
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 7.996
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.093
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.164
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.210
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
Tags: @product
52.795
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.791
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.617
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.147
And all notifications have disappeared 8.284
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.223
And all tps features are enabled 6.913
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.794
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:18.043
And I enable persistence 26.916
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.070
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.438
And persistence is enabled 9.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.438
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.269
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.730
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.156
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 8.093
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.273
When I enable persistence 14.761
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.028
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 7.997
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.731
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.318
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.114
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.116
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.230
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.937
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 7.624
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.415
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 7.565
And all notifications have disappeared 7.675
# 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" 0.127
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.073
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.155
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.050
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.300
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 7.677
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.679
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.281
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.846
When I log in to a new session 7.666
And all notifications have disappeared 5.958
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.195
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000