Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21373-poweroff-inhibit 46 02 Jul 2026, 23:32

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 20:46.358 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.911
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 1:17.830
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.009
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.252
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.938
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 8.503
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.625
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.235
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.842
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 20.907
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.606
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 5.435
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.293
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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27.648
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 7.114
And the system is very low on memory 3.428
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.797
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.481
And I free up some memory 0.801
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.705
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.007
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 8.296
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 4.760
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.852
When I disable the first tps feature 2.444
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.680
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.957
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.113
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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12.823
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.041
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.512
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 7.000
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.496
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.836
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.200
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 7.023
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.250
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.901
When I write some files expected to persist 1.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.872
# 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" 11.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.224
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 7.055
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 8.307
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.226
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.741
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.322
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.974
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
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37.005
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.457
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.096
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.730
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.631
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 8.360
When I enable persistence 17.864
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.869
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.512
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.331
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.506
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.710
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 6.038
And the computer reboots Tails 35.340
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.255
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.172
Given I enable persistence 10.863
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.909
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:9.783
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.539
# 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 29.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.285
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.086
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
35.337
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.531
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.326
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.673
And all notifications have disappeared 7.725
When I delete the persistent partition 2.625
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.131
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 7.467
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.713
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.571
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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47.011
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 7.460
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.032
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.933
And all notifications have disappeared 7.707
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 4.696
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:6.025
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 29.139
And I enable persistence 21.485
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.046
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.517
And persistence is enabled 4.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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24.668
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 6.894
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.231
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.669
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 7.743
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.392
When I enable persistence 10.353
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.045
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 7.342
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.861
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.275
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.245
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.578
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 7.739
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.206
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.609
And all notifications have disappeared 8.901
# 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" 0.117
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.412
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.279
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.360
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 7.657
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.943
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.300
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.534
When I log in to a new session 9.305
And all notifications have disappeared 8.308
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.349
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000