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test_Tails_ISO_issue-template-stop-tracking-oldstable 2 01 Oct 2026, 17:38

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 23:41.454 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:46.035
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 1:32.001
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.015
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.222
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.505
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 9.137
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.781
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 8.742
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.486
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.550
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.304
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
29.218
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 8.304
And the system is very low on memory 4.321
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.201
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.576
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.439
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.838
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.805
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 8.897
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
And all tps features are active 8.730
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.023
When I disable the first tps feature 2.559
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.531
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.859
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
13.986
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 7.998
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 3.081
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.508
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 7.686
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 2.518
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.072
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.304
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.168
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.180
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.702
When I write some files expected to persist 0.966
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.263
# 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" 11.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.366
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 7.975
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.339
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.343
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.791
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 11.143
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.374
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.093
Tags: @product
38.782
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 8.587
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.171
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.637
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 8.792
When I enable persistence 23.460
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.177
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.548
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.218
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.141
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.436
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.314
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 6.211
And the computer reboots Tails 34.208
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
Given I enable persistence 14.371
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.053
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.174
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.686
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:8.869
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 8.783
# 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 26.463
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.548
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.445
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.698
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 8.238
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.883
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.291
And all notifications have disappeared 9.234
When I delete the persistent partition 2.673
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.963
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 8.490
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.669
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.541
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
58.952
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 8.649
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.534
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.626
And all notifications have disappeared 7.865
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.280
And all tps features are enabled 8.550
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.420
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 1:58.653
And I enable persistence 27.442
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.389
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.640
And persistence is enabled 8.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.642
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 8.059
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.012
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.448
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 8.782
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.943
When I enable persistence 14.014
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.853
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 8.329
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.613
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.939
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.272
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.279
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.132
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 8.314
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.983
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 8.567
And all notifications have disappeared 8.279
# 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" 0.268
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.101
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.189
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.134
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.541
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.802
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.828
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.748
When I log in to a new session 7.460
And all notifications have disappeared 9.060
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.277
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000