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test_Tails_ISO_stable 6326 23 Apr 2026, 13:34

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 26:28.904 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:48.923
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:34.494
And I update APT using apt 7.102
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.337
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.403
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.009
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.049
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.297
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.349
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.424
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.350
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.587
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.120
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.970
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.268
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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37.210
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.720
And the system is very low on memory 9.698
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.240
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.524
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.187
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.426
And I free up some memory 0.862
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.457
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.621
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.936
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.445
And all tps features are active 1.422
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.515
When I disable the first tps feature 3.075
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.667
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.857
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.319
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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14.742
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.954
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I disable the first tps feature 3.577
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.085
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.682
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.287
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I disable the first tps feature 3.206
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.359
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.009
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.360
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 21.419
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.250
When I write some files expected to persist 1.496
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.037
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 13.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.216
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.428
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.781
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.294
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.951
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.470
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 22.600
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
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49.608
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.149
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.308
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:9.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.371
When I enable persistence 22.283
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.892
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.177
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.504
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.223
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.619
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.397
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 10.894
And the computer reboots Tails 40.879
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.301
Given I enable persistence 7.393
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.905
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
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2:45.205
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.797
# 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 40.415
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.523
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:19.889
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
57.132
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.336
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.557
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.352
And all notifications have disappeared 9.695
When I delete the persistent partition 2.770
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.769
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.944
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.079
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.378
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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58.052
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.001
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.659
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.705
And all notifications have disappeared 8.781
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.865
And all tps features are enabled 1.931
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 40.136
And I enable persistence 25.250
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.717
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.637
And persistence is enabled 1.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
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 20.673
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.894
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.634
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.173
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 29.876
When I enable persistence 7.643
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.502
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.264
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 24.558
When I try to enable persistence 1.359
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.418
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.419
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.937
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.124
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 17.316
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 13.537
And all notifications have disappeared 10.119
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.501
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.274
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.369
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.311
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.856
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.318
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.696
When I log in to a new session 12.156
And all notifications have disappeared 9.498
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.986
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000