Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_17367-per-setting-dconf-persistence 13 11 Aug 2026, 23:03

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 24:28.587 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.638
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 1:15.938
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.781
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.225
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.030
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 log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.375
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.067
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.286
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 8.274
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.454
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.262
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.733
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.845
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 8.148
And the system is very low on memory 4.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.207
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.319
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.386
And I free up some memory 0.446
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.788
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:3.516
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 20.914
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And all tps features are active 10.150
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.638
When I disable the first tps feature 2.451
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.229
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.191
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.385
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.309
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 enabled and logged in 7.893
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I disable the first tps feature 2.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.116
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 7.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.576
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.877
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.055
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 7.569
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.338
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.735
When I write some files expected to persist 0.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.197
# 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" 11.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.997
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 7.621
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 9.353
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.193
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.470
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 11.615
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.342
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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37.476
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 8.446
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.408
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.155
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 8.173
When I enable persistence 23.443
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.828
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.616
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.168
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.549
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.051
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
When I cold reboot the computer 5.810
And the computer reboots Tails 31.766
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 14.978
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.143
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.475
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:9.070
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 8.036
# 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 28.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.571
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.124
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
37.091
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 7.818
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.622
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.532
And all notifications have disappeared 8.133
When I delete the persistent partition 2.658
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.940
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 7.702
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.238
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.717
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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1:27.270
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 7.707
When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature 11.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.474
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.333
Then the persisted setting for every dconf feature is still set 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
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59.644
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 7.665
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.670
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.289
And all notifications have disappeared 8.545
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.270
And all tps features are enabled 9.892
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.083
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 1:56.360
And I enable persistence 27.478
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.869
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.507
And persistence is enabled 9.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.594
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 7.442
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.690
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.817
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 8.020
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.791
When I enable persistence 14.406
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.177
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 7.886
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.118
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.438
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.112
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.120
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.086
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.290
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 7.778
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.829
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.427
And all notifications have disappeared 7.731
# 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" 0.150
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.076
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.156
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.024
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.178
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 7.947
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.848
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.275
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.764
When I log in to a new session 7.345
And all notifications have disappeared 7.853
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.102
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000