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test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org 37 22 Jun 2026, 08:05

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 22:34.166 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.096
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.270
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.647
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.285
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.957
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.346
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.132
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.368
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.534
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.340
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.173
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product
30.797
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.865
And the system is very low on memory 3.597
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.186
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.905
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.369
And I free up some memory 0.850
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.830
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.084
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
And all tps features are active 5.802
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.267
When I disable the first tps feature 3.042
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.338
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.048
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.958
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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13.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.628
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.918
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.220
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I disable the first tps feature 3.034
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.934
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.984
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.661
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 13.446
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.170
When I write some files expected to persist 1.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.602
# 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" 12.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.591
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.650
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.000
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.599
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.436
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
42.763
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.287
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 15.616
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.747
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.987
When I enable persistence 19.794
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.336
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.869
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.599
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.403
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.708
And the computer reboots Tails 39.035
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.420
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 11.012
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.221
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.182
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:17.617
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.853
# 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 30.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.228
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.873
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
39.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.216
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.058
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.418
And all notifications have disappeared 8.117
When I delete the persistent partition 3.334
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:28.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.968
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.523
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.962
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
53.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.158
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.615
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.905
And all notifications have disappeared 7.757
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.057
And all tps features are enabled 5.892
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.705
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
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 31.739
And I enable persistence 24.385
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.756
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.957
And persistence is enabled 5.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.039
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 7.656
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.685
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.274
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.302
When I enable persistence 11.116
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.852
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.200
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.100
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.403
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.137
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.538
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.005
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.846
And all notifications have disappeared 8.780
# 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" 0.226
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.647
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.239
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.815
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.694
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 8.011
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.788
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.488
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.845
When I log in to a new session 11.277
And all notifications have disappeared 8.566
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.787
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000