Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21373-poweroff-inhibit 24 10 Jun 2026, 20:01

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 20:32.295 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.928
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.348
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.175
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.346
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.044
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 8.860
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.158
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.989
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 8.542
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.509
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.285
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.327
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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29.520
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.754
And the system is very low on memory 3.669
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.292
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.605
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.405
And I free up some memory 0.942
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.644
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:31.001
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 8.926
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
And all tps features are active 1.342
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.098
When I disable the first tps feature 2.541
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.235
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.515
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.618
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.149
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 enabled and logged in 7.240
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 3.100
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.088
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 7.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 2.505
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.887
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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43.005
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 7.799
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 13.719
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.222
When I write some files expected to persist 1.303
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.262
# 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" 12.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.611
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 7.321
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.976
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.724
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.706
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.989
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.445
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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39.434
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.581
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 14.545
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:49.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.419
When I enable persistence 14.555
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.892
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.760
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.578
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.391
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 7.432
And the computer reboots Tails 37.584
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.262
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.199
Given I enable persistence 7.668
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.280
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.939
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:1.456
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 enabled and logged in 8.340
# 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 27.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.441
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.304
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
38.944
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 8.105
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.794
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.704
And all notifications have disappeared 8.163
When I delete the persistent partition 2.689
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:18.977
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 enabled and logged in 7.615
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.106
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.932
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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42.373
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.259
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.838
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.690
And all notifications have disappeared 7.800
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.315
And all tps features are enabled 0.980
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:7.401
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 30.419
And I enable persistence 22.674
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.825
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.735
And persistence is enabled 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.961
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
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 7.265
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.154
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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24.551
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 8.291
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.810
When I enable persistence 6.694
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.572
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 8.186
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.629
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.528
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.443
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.098
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.693
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 7.410
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.524
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 11.532
And all notifications have disappeared 10.430
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.540
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.162
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.436
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.687
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 7.345
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.062
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.038
When I log in to a new session 11.476
And all notifications have disappeared 9.099
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.441
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:335 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000