Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_17367-per-setting-dconf-persistence 22 25 Aug 2026, 23:05

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 25:18.790 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.027
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 1:16.051
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.112
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.184
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.514
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 8.394
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.307
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.180
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.275
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 8.323
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.491
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 5.507
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.355
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
28.831
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 7.851
And the system is very low on memory 4.460
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.488
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.437
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.825
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.905
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 8.191
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And all tps features are active 9.893
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.475
When I disable the first tps feature 2.435
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.858
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.620
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.218
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.894
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 7.638
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.093
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 7.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.459
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.954
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.262
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
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 7.962
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.621
When I write some files expected to persist 0.842
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.309
# 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" 10.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.925
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 7.683
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 8.148
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.386
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.544
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.436
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
37.349
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 8.473
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.118
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.995
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.862
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 8.299
When I enable persistence 25.548
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.464
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.807
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.245
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.473
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.790
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.111
When I cold reboot the computer 5.695
And the computer reboots Tails 31.492
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.213
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
Given I enable persistence 15.471
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
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 6.320
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:7.688
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 8.131
# 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 28.306
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.203
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.189
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
37.790
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 8.273
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.756
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.939
And all notifications have disappeared 7.934
When I delete the persistent partition 2.582
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.716
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 7.738
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.216
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.534
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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1:26.179
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 7.522
When I change a persisted setting for every dconf feature 11.423
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.137
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.751
Then the persisted setting for every dconf feature is still set 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
59.677
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 8.415
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.295
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.788
And all notifications have disappeared 8.393
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.224
And all tps features are enabled 9.847
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:38.021
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 2:46.259
And I enable persistence 31.659
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.171
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.494
And persistence is enabled 12.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.646
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 7.380
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.792
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.565
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 8.427
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.468
When I enable persistence 17.462
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 12.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.580
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
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.362
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.693
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.226
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.271
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.822
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 7.873
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.226
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 7.258
And all notifications have disappeared 7.659
# 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" 0.174
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.008
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.157
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 7.878
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.721
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.229
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.272
When I log in to a new session 8.077
And all notifications have disappeared 7.482
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.084
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000