Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21651-persist-gnome-software-dconf-state 1 22 Jul 2026, 18:36

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 21:54.395 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.470
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.664
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.786
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.234
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.015
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 8.631
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.680
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.716
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 8.179
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.296
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.570
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.913
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.223
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
29.621
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 7.183
And the system is very low on memory 4.746
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.283
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.770
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.141
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.171
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.264
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 8.686
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And all tps features are active 5.027
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.090
When I disable the first tps feature 2.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.404
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.800
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.415
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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13.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.784
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.471
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.485
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.925
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 7.243
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.533
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.976
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.690
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 6.988
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 12.018
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.864
When I write some files expected to persist 1.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.586
# 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" 11.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.067
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 7.566
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.931
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.456
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.664
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.658
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.103
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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42.466
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 8.415
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.711
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.169
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 8.404
When I enable persistence 20.275
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.949
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.965
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.529
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.260
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 6.283
And the computer reboots Tails 37.471
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.241
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
Given I enable persistence 11.241
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.196
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.198
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:14.587
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 8.150
# 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 31.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.587
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.998
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
40.251
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 8.425
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.285
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.232
And all notifications have disappeared 8.046
When I delete the persistent partition 2.709
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.403
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 7.829
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.398
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.909
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
50.073
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 7.555
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.522
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.619
And all notifications have disappeared 7.817
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.310
And all tps features are enabled 4.977
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.685
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 32.369
And I enable persistence 25.922
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.725
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.658
And persistence is enabled 6.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.675
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 7.143
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.940
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.895
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 7.850
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.777
When I enable persistence 11.214
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.373
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 7.466
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.823
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.724
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.419
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.172
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.173
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 7.549
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.989
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.513
And all notifications have disappeared 9.383
# 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" 0.206
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.587
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.531
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.705
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 7.372
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.886
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.766
When I log in to a new session 10.164
And all notifications have disappeared 9.451
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.805
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000