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test_Tails_ISO_stable 6336 29 Apr 2026, 15:42

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 26:50.207 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.629
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:28.533
And I update APT using apt 5.938
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.199
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 8.886
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.419
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 logged in 9.017
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.416
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 43.539
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.521
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.605
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.980
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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36.536
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 7.850
And the system is very low on memory 10.596
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.141
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.158
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.380
And I free up some memory 0.833
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.403
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.420
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 9.915
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
And all tps features are active 1.342
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.154
When I disable the first tps feature 2.691
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.172
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.798
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.731
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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14.146
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 8.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.130
When I disable the first tps feature 2.652
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.548
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.415
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 7.451
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.776
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.993
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.949
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 7.761
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 21.081
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.094
# 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" 12.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.573
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 7.834
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 21.153
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.611
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.072
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.124
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.114
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.082
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1:3.907
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.723
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.251
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 34.361
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.358
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.468
When I enable persistence 33.763
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.236
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.190
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.294
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.248
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.487
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.848
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 10.321
And the computer reboots Tails 37.844
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
Given I enable persistence 6.968
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.262
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.609
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:47.647
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.177
# 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 53.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 22.252
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.057
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
58.755
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.210
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.704
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.965
And all notifications have disappeared 8.816
When I delete the persistent partition 2.656
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.461
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.782
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.670
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.698
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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51.651
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.477
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.061
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.118
And all notifications have disappeared 8.149
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.965
And all tps features are enabled 1.289
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.298
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 44.606
And I enable persistence 27.867
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.544
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And persistence is enabled 1.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.263
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.205
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.501
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.510
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 8.296
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 28.798
When I enable persistence 8.504
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.631
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 28.291
When I try to enable persistence 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.086
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.336
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.150
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.351
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.458
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.215
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.871
And all notifications have disappeared 9.155
# 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" 0.271
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.465
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.152
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.454
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.444
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.855
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.679
When I log in to a new session 11.521
And all notifications have disappeared 9.276
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.257
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000