Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_17367-per-setting-dconf-persistence 25 28 Aug 2026, 23:09

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 25:41.379 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.526
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 1:18.487
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.098
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.230
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.028
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.925
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.118
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.171
And persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.186
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 8.805
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
28.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.026
And the system is very low on memory 4.332
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.320
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.393
And I free up some memory 0.481
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.788
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:10.440
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 21.215
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And all tps features are active 11.046
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.814
When I disable the first tps feature 2.513
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.493
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.381
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.081
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
26.852
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 21.353
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 2.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.411
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 7.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I disable the first tps feature 2.728
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.924
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.914
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 7.724
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.242
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.267
When I write some files expected to persist 1.036
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.300
# 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" 11.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.418
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 7.467
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.934
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.194
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.238
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.225
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.751
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
Tags: @product
38.403
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 8.365
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 11.450
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.156
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 21.385
When I enable persistence 24.666
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.910
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.496
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.402
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.301
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.484
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.766
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 6.033
And the computer reboots Tails 32.571
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
Given I enable persistence 16.302
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.142
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.750
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:8.499
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 8.525
# 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 29.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.557
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.573
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.588
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 7.621
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.682
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.232
And all notifications have disappeared 8.082
When I delete the persistent partition 2.628
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.975
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 7.757
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.586
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.383
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:29.745
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 7.665
When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature 11.772
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.174
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.403
Then the persisted setting for every dconf feature is still set 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
1:0.425
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 8.145
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.360
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.698
And all notifications have disappeared 7.592
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.238
And all tps features are enabled 10.253
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.489
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 1:57.968
And I enable persistence 28.694
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.485
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.449
And persistence is enabled 10.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.132
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 7.336
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.257
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.310
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 8.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.074
When I enable persistence 16.336
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.909
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 7.899
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.371
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.418
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.151
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.175
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.032
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.344
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.108
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I log in to a new session 7.587
And all notifications have disappeared 9.039
# 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" 0.114
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.097
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.200
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.163
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.264
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 8.237
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.727
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.427
When I log in to a new session 7.826
And all notifications have disappeared 8.337
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.267
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000