Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21373-poweroff-inhibit 2 28 May 2026, 19:54

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 19:41.015 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.169
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 1:19.057
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.979
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.279
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.055
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 8.459
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.422
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.200
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.529
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 8.414
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.119
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.699
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.672
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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27.277
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.154
And the system is very low on memory 3.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.475
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.530
And I free up some memory 0.781
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.891
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.586
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 20.617
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And all tps features are active 1.279
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.942
When I disable the first tps feature 2.453
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.649
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.110
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.720
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 enabled and logged in 7.326
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.588
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 6.949
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.578
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.887
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
37.350
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 7.285
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.125
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.226
When I write some files expected to persist 1.260
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.880
# 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" 11.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.274
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 7.299
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.843
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.644
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.145
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.576
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.058
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38.122
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 8.585
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.280
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:39.626
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 8.718
When I enable persistence 11.700
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.509
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.242
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.520
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.704
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 6.148
And the computer reboots Tails 35.750
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.272
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.163
Given I enable persistence 6.740
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.224
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.055
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:2.539
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 8.171
# 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 25.946
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.805
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.524
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
36.330
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 7.397
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.657
Then persistence is disabled 0.133
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.422
And all notifications have disappeared 7.531
When I delete the persistent partition 2.895
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:13.910
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 7.594
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.683
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.037
Tags: @product
39.012
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 7.396
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.774
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.719
And all notifications have disappeared 7.631
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.263
And all tps features are enabled 0.951
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
59.435
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 28.926
And I enable persistence 19.399
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.104
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.548
And persistence is enabled 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.319
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 6.965
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.831
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.548
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 7.738
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.397
When I enable persistence 6.592
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.767
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 7.468
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.281
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.184
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.337
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.070
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 7.422
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.748
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.685
And all notifications have disappeared 8.996
# 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" 0.169
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.392
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.288
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.781
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 7.285
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.519
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.325
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.290
When I log in to a new session 9.872
And all notifications have disappeared 9.412
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.207
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000