Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_17367-per-setting-dconf-persistence 10 09 Aug 2026, 19:15

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 168 0 0 0 0 168 22 0 22 24:40.140 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.982
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 1:18.270
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.731
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.928
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 8.259
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.428
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.228
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.216
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 21.823
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.435
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.922
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.416
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.137
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 8.109
And the system is very low on memory 4.763
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.273
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.989
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.081
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.325
And I free up some memory 0.488
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.754
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 8.122
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And all tps features are active 10.559
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.854
When I disable the first tps feature 2.455
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.328
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.299
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.236
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 7.880
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.042
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.204
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 7.662
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.557
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.811
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.450
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 7.445
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.430
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.353
When I write some files expected to persist 0.918
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.200
# 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" 11.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.655
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 7.504
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.200
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.310
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.856
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 12.081
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.342
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089
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38.586
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.086
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.727
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.855
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 8.289
When I enable persistence 23.304
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.826
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.859
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.192
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.129
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.459
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.445
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.089
When I cold reboot the computer 5.762
And the computer reboots Tails 31.852
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.249
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.127
Given I enable persistence 14.715
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.328
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.008
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:6.917
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 8.150
# 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 27.979
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.260
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.739
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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37.378
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 7.806
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.753
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.281
And all notifications have disappeared 8.588
When I delete the persistent partition 2.589
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.179
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 7.455
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.219
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.216
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.075
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1:26.365
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 7.573
When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature 11.570
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.226
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.629
Then the persisted setting for every dconf feature is still set 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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59.398
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 7.867
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.584
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.807
And all notifications have disappeared 7.937
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.213
And all tps features are enabled 9.721
And all tps features but the first one are active 11.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.192
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 1:59.704
And I enable persistence 28.913
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.127
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.495
And persistence is enabled 9.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.502
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 7.438
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.564
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.146
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 8.385
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.783
When I enable persistence 15.548
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.128
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 7.721
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.594
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.799
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.214
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.096
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.822
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 7.635
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.031
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.610
And all notifications have disappeared 7.751
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.106
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.195
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.047
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.100
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 7.692
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.850
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.232
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.386
When I log in to a new session 7.898
And all notifications have disappeared 7.910
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.065
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000