Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21373-poweroff-inhibit 6 02 Jun 2026, 15:02

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 21:14.578 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.175
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.242
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.769
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.584
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 9.125
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.810
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.613
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 8.799
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.794
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.944
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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29.760
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 7.897
And the system is very low on memory 4.380
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.281
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.903
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.492
And I free up some memory 0.938
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.719
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:32.878
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 8.462
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.318
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.374
When I disable the first tps feature 2.547
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.195
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.900
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.364
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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13.409
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 7.774
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.638
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.930
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.535
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.956
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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43.711
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 7.725
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.365
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.197
When I write some files expected to persist 1.680
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.453
# 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" 13.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:46.887
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 enabled and logged in 7.542
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 9.849
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.305
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.000
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 13.208
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.478
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.146
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.043
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41.989
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.727
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.660
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:53.873
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 9.240
When I enable persistence 14.264
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.236
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.072
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.450
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.538
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.085
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.247
When I cold reboot the computer 6.521
And the computer reboots Tails 39.768
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.196
Given I enable persistence 7.616
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.314
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.498
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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2:12.866
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 enabled and logged in 8.300
# 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 28.721
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.307
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.679
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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39.653
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 8.463
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.300
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.259
And all notifications have disappeared 7.800
When I delete the persistent partition 3.351
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:21.286
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 enabled and logged in 7.843
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.870
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.262
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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43.579
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 8.227
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.993
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.440
And all notifications have disappeared 7.999
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.816
And all tps features are enabled 1.491
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.011
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.050
And I enable persistence 20.621
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.029
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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23.003
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 7.488
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.883
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.255
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.828
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.209
When I enable persistence 8.145
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.852
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 8.087
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.888
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.675
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.338
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.679
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 8.121
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.382
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 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.395
And all notifications have disappeared 8.277
# 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" 0.196
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.095
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.195
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.741
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.894
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 8.160
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.600
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.527
When I log in to a new session 12.506
And all notifications have disappeared 9.486
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.142
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000