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test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org 1 18 May 2026, 19:38

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 20:27.160 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.772
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.871
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.709
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.735
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.937
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.443
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.442
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.182
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.515
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.600
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
29.594
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.390
And the system is very low on memory 3.905
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.225
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.088
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.133
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.916
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.486
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:30.624
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.506
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And all tps features are active 1.146
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.128
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.233
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.597
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.070
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.018
Tags: @product
12.936
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.833
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.391
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.488
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.793
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
40.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.231
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.953
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.172
When I write some files expected to persist 1.266
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.538
# 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" 11.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.252
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.078
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.904
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 6.647
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.176
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.712
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
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37.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.696
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.751
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:42.408
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.526
When I enable persistence 12.514
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.081
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.895
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.418
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 5.022
And the computer reboots Tails 36.492
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 7.081
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.202
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.190
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:13.375
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.451
# 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 27.578
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.781
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.948
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
38.044
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.830
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.421
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.784
And all notifications have disappeared 7.867
When I delete the persistent partition 2.685
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:24.190
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.784
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.426
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.718
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
40.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.957
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.453
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.776
And all notifications have disappeared 7.836
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.295
And all tps features are enabled 1.151
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.322
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
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 32.422
And I enable persistence 20.821
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.660
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.655
And persistence is enabled 1.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.545
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
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 7.351
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.699
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.117
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.635
When I enable persistence 6.756
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.150
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.496
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.890
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.396
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.139
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.561
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.490
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.403
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.366
And all notifications have disappeared 9.173
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.999
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.375
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.547
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.812
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.129
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.327
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.600
When I log in to a new session 11.312
And all notifications have disappeared 7.970
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.442
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000