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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4566 23 Aug 2026, 11:15

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 25:52.673 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.286
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 1:19.137
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.199
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.208
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.098
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 8.857
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.449
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.384
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.828
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.256
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.530
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.840
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 8.256
And the system is very low on memory 5.021
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.319
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.971
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.174
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.413
And I free up some memory 0.488
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.156
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.584
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 8.843
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
And all tps features are active 7.975
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.930
When I disable the first tps feature 2.653
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.314
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.752
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.408
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
13.170
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 7.695
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.338
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 7.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.501
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.814
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
55.394
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 21.142
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 10.027
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.273
When I write some files expected to persist 1.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.426
# 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" 11.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.995
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 7.622
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.069
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.315
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.196
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 12.017
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
Tags: @product
53.214
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 22.309
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.157
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.270
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.294
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 8.245
When I enable persistence 24.713
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.030
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.298
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.423
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.347
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.533
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 5.945
And the computer reboots Tails 34.489
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.152
Given I enable persistence 14.088
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.365
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.412
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:12.525
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 8.367
# 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 28.405
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.553
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.713
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
41.858
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.634
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.367
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.561
And all notifications have disappeared 9.174
When I delete the persistent partition 2.689
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.496
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 8.126
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.381
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.731
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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1:1.543
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.202
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.158
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.180
And all notifications have disappeared 7.862
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.231
And all tps features are enabled 9.409
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:13.159
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 3:24.335
And I enable persistence 29.789
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.966
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.540
And persistence is enabled 10.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.609
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 7.940
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.183
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.652
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 9.027
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.562
When I enable persistence 16.796
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 11.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.318
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 8.848
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.166
When I try to enable persistence 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.821
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.590
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.220
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.107
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 8.615
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.401
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 9.220
And all notifications have disappeared 8.854
# 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" 0.206
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.096
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.197
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.261
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.797
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 8.485
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.790
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.311
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.074
When I log in to a new session 9.710
And all notifications have disappeared 8.410
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.118
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000