Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21373-poweroff-inhibit 39 26 Jun 2026, 20:11

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 21:46.866 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.154
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 1:20.493
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.548
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.281
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.085
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 8.947
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.750
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.934
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 8.278
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.196
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 7.040
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.749
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.143
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.157
And the system is very low on memory 4.500
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.760
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.466
And I free up some memory 0.801
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.318
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.647
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
And all tps features are active 5.042
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.977
When I disable the first tps feature 2.597
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.678
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.460
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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12.882
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.180
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.248
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.621
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.986
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.435
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 7.549
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.285
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.753
When I write some files expected to persist 1.324
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.119
# 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" 12.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.201
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.217
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.382
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.197
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.016
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.607
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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39.487
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 8.347
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.092
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.259
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.347
When I enable persistence 17.728
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.832
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.648
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.408
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.178
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.284
When I cold reboot the computer 6.589
And the computer reboots Tails 37.307
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.174
Given I enable persistence 11.570
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.271
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.554
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:12.441
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 8.176
# 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 28.216
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.961
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.094
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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40.434
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.093
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.812
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.163
And all notifications have disappeared 8.083
When I delete the persistent partition 2.851
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.316
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 7.422
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.736
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.837
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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49.167
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.465
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.910
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.344
And all notifications have disappeared 8.196
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 4.954
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.100
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 30.040
And I enable persistence 24.901
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.516
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.703
And persistence is enabled 5.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.029
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.175
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.005
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 8.224
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.522
When I enable persistence 11.355
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.353
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 7.424
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.674
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.304
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.765
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.718
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.828
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 12.072
And all notifications have disappeared 8.581
# 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" 0.199
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.584
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.226
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.292
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.508
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.524
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.737
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.956
When I log in to a new session 10.758
And all notifications have disappeared 8.814
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.400
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000