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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4651 01 Oct 2026, 13:12

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 23:23.766 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:57.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.476
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.198
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.547
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.476
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 8.416
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.407
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.204
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.484
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 8.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.257
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.850
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.168
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.144
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 8.057
And the system is very low on memory 4.846
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.225
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.181
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.372
And I free up some memory 0.450
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.842
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.432
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 8.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And all tps features are active 8.157
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.865
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.638
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.616
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.100
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
13.060
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 7.809
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.041
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.233
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 7.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.486
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.026
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.920
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 7.612
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 13.063
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.698
When I write some files expected to persist 0.944
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.234
# 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" 11.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.546
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 20.748
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.269
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.225
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.706
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.758
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.423
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.147
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089
Tags: @product
39.723
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 8.553
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.484
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.376
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 8.777
When I enable persistence 22.306
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.555
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.075
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.290
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.624
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.752
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 5.849
And the computer reboots Tails 34.527
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.203
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.146
Given I enable persistence 15.530
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.147
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.846
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
2:8.499
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 8.924
# 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 28.278
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.372
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.511
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
39.118
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 8.569
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.178
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.196
And all notifications have disappeared 8.202
When I delete the persistent partition 2.621
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.341
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 7.784
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.223
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.020
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
57.038
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 8.465
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.200
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.717
And all notifications have disappeared 8.165
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 9.021
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.420
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 1:55.865
And I enable persistence 24.899
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.218
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.502
And persistence is enabled 6.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.695
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 7.484
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.750
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.839
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 8.457
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.272
When I enable persistence 12.028
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.936
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 8.008
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.962
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.114
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.210
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.884
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 7.918
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.448
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.020
And all notifications have disappeared 7.767
# 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" 0.148
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.065
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.186
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.005
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.568
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 7.983
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.440
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.270
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.934
When I log in to a new session 7.059
And all notifications have disappeared 7.735
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.045
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000