Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21373-poweroff-inhibit 27 13 Jun 2026, 20:00

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 21:5.397 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.865
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.900
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.944
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.230
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.889
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 8.874
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.536
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.233
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.368
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.034
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.690
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.790
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.912
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.270
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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28.429
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.578
And the system is very low on memory 3.828
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.185
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.473
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 0.964
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.864
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.867
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 8.232
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And all tps features are active 5.193
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.929
When I disable the first tps feature 2.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.659
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.082
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.131
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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14.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.150
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 7.516
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.514
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.927
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.086
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 7.875
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.393
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.978
When I write some files expected to persist 1.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.009
# 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" 11.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.099
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 7.709
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 9.492
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 6.998
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.971
And I capture all network traffic 0.015
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.195
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.417
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
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40.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.706
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.684
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.942
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 8.641
When I enable persistence 18.092
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.665
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.187
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.214
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.498
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.685
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 6.361
And the computer reboots Tails 35.201
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.246
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.165
Given I enable persistence 10.867
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.247
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.148
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:8.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.274
# 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 27.950
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.518
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.743
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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38.372
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 8.592
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.323
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.549
And all notifications have disappeared 7.803
When I delete the persistent partition 2.660
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.938
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 8.193
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.165
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.256
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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48.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.217
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.397
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.926
And all notifications have disappeared 8.025
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 4.773
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:9.294
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.190
And I enable persistence 22.910
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.024
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.681
And persistence is enabled 5.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.741
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.308
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.829
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.880
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 8.766
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.845
When I enable persistence 10.857
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.263
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 7.893
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.716
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.075
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.255
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.142
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.031
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 7.851
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.919
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.324
And all notifications have disappeared 8.822
# 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" 0.136
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.081
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.132
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.431
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.520
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 7.882
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.118
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.380
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.674
When I log in to a new session 9.996
And all notifications have disappeared 9.652
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.842
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000