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test_Tails_ISO_remove-boum.org 2 09 Sep 2026, 20:33

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 22:58.421 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.123
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.507
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.674
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.466
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 8.870
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.024
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.963
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 22.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.914
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.972
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
31.105
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 8.649
And the system is very low on memory 4.540
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.225
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.642
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 0.844
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.667
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.328
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 8.676
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.361
And all tps features are active 9.163
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.211
When I disable the first tps feature 2.555
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.866
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.837
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.741
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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13.941
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 8.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.608
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.147
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 7.942
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 3.026
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.984
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.928
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 enabled and logged in 7.948
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.098
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.772
When I write some files expected to persist 0.969
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
# 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" 11.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.472
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 7.583
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 10.186
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.712
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.026
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 12.191
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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 8.502
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.113
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.703
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.309
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 9.108
When I enable persistence 20.648
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.338
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.122
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.293
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.553
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.816
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 5.833
And the computer reboots Tails 33.521
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.397
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.169
Given I enable persistence 12.181
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.380
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.699
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 8.198
# 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 27.375
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.266
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.208
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
36.683
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 8.049
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.343
Then persistence is disabled 0.068
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.853
And all notifications have disappeared 7.489
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.121
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 8.207
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.391
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
54.095
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 7.843
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.724
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.404
And all notifications have disappeared 8.064
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 7.362
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:34.170
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:54.446
And I enable persistence 24.860
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.915
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.553
And persistence is enabled 7.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.673
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 7.328
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.864
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.666
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 8.599
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.268
When I enable persistence 12.207
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.700
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 8.218
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.347
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.001
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.198
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.264
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.992
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 8.003
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.678
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 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.643
And all notifications have disappeared 8.173
# 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" 0.177
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.062
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.131
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.975
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.106
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 8.041
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.698
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.264
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.225
When I log in to a new session 8.151
And all notifications have disappeared 7.639
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.979
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000