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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4184 22 Jan 2026, 18:01

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 31:27.645 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.080
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.999
And I update APT using apt 7.467
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.322
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.634
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 13.425
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.595
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.815
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.409
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.591
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.013
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.926
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.307
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.178
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.156
And the system is very low on memory 4.442
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.331
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.882
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.153
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.678
And I free up some memory 1.196
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.787
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.075
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.216
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
And all tps features are active 2.397
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.425
When I disable the first tps feature 2.810
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.812
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.593
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
17.178
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.022
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I disable the first tps feature 3.102
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.560
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.442
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.687
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.138
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 3.291
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.183
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.337
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.311
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 14.347
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.607
When I write some files expected to persist 1.464
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.317
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 18.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.978
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 10.126
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.804
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.387
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 12.653
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
56.224
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.379
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.185
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.416
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:39.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 13.824
When I enable persistence 26.573
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.443
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.019
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.567
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.475
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.741
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.839
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
When I cold reboot the computer 12.456
And the computer reboots Tails 43.279
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.475
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.257
Given I enable persistence 19.920
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.459
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.632
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
2:25.773
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.546
# 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 28.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.225
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.612
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
51.595
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 12.728
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.313
Then persistence is disabled 0.154
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.175
And all notifications have disappeared 10.780
When I delete the persistent partition 2.972
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.274
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.120
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.995
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.785
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
58.284
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.353
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.033
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.711
And all notifications have disappeared 10.109
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.387
And all tps features are enabled 2.328
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:17.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 5:31.826
And I enable persistence 30.782
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.345
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.726
And persistence is enabled 2.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.769
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
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 9.287
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.842
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.988
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.421
When I enable persistence 10.910
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.078
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.569
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.506
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.790
When I try to enable persistence 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.208
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.863
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.370
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.608
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.061
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.221
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 13.533
And all notifications have disappeared 10.948
# 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" 0.212
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.543
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.226
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.999
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.686
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.789
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.428
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.065
When I log in to a new session 12.293
And all notifications have disappeared 10.501
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.492
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000