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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4656 04 Oct 2026, 11:17

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 24:13.066 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.259
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 1:19.314
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.620
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.546
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.220
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 8.829
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.541
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.188
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.755
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 8.928
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.376
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.827
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
30.057
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 8.200
And the system is very low on memory 4.981
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.212
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.175
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.559
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.423
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.777
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 8.496
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And all tps features are active 8.824
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.885
When I disable the first tps feature 3.039
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.383
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.834
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.908
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.478
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 8.191
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.346
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 7.680
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
And I disable the first tps feature 2.616
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.893
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
59.656
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 21.488
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.545
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.661
When I write some files expected to persist 0.969
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.225
# 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" 11.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.621
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.788
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 10.019
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.345
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.730
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 11.003
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
39.981
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.695
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.770
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.788
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.670
When I enable persistence 22.814
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.504
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.255
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.286
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.470
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.621
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 6.137
And the computer reboots Tails 33.647
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 14.165
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.057
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.700
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:6.288
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 8.891
# 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 27.212
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.594
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.423
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
40.532
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 8.515
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.886
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.334
And all notifications have disappeared 8.743
When I delete the persistent partition 2.650
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.196
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 8.668
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.432
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.777
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
59.454
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 8.388
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.405
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.265
And all notifications have disappeared 7.432
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 8.131
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.161
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 2:1.429
And I enable persistence 26.920
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.572
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.511
And persistence is enabled 7.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.271
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 7.570
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.132
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.205
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.887
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.256
When I enable persistence 13.997
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.208
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 8.702
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.680
When I try to enable persistence 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.357
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.311
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.240
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.840
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 8.468
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.413
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.936
And all notifications have disappeared 7.473
# 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" 0.265
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.274
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.443
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.963
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.324
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.296
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.295
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.183
When I log in to a new session 8.576
And all notifications have disappeared 7.950
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.226
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000