Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_17367-per-setting-dconf-persistence 12 10 Aug 2026, 22:58

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 24:38.232 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.276
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 1:15.745
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.556
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.214
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.164
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 8.489
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.196
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.853
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.813
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.449
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When 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 1:0.688
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.148
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.977
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 logged in 7.710
And the system is very low on memory 4.902
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.507
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 2.425
And I free up some memory 0.473
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.685
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.527
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 8.383
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 9.555
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.679
When I disable the first tps feature 2.438
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.973
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.429
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.822
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.816
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 7.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.040
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.022
When I enable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.938
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 7.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.428
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.809
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.076
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 7.645
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.537
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.570
When I write some files expected to persist 0.909
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.142
# 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" 11.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.445
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 7.580
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 8.100
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.217
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.834
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.019
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.308
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
37.994
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 8.353
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.985
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.921
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 8.381
When I enable persistence 25.463
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.475
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.957
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.488
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.550
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.094
When I cold reboot the computer 5.789
And the computer reboots Tails 33.515
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
Given I enable persistence 15.792
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.276
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.645
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:9.208
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 8.291
# 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 30.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.215
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.138
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
37.330
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 8.141
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.353
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.490
And all notifications have disappeared 8.279
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.181
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 7.652
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.164
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.095
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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1:26.311
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 7.788
When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature 11.468
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.169
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.491
Then the persisted setting for every dconf feature is still set 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
58.364
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 8.075
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.537
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.441
And all notifications have disappeared 7.952
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.214
And all tps features are enabled 9.739
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.132
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:56.298
And I enable persistence 27.561
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.799
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.610
And persistence is enabled 9.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.244
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 7.389
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.411
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
55.040
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 21.058
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.429
When I enable persistence 14.571
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.744
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 7.682
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.836
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.446
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.143
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.080
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.670
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 7.538
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.724
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 7.026
And all notifications have disappeared 7.597
# 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" 0.172
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.070
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.155
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.013
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.009
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 7.849
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.715
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.252
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.249
When I log in to a new session 7.558
And all notifications have disappeared 7.044
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.035
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000