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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4379 06 May 2026, 10:51

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 20:35.054 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.831
And I update APT using apt 6.384
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.265
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.500
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.517
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.207
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.193
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.701
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.452
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.356
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
27.194
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.135
And the system is very low on memory 3.362
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.638
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 0.784
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.543
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.283
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.340
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.351
And all tps features are active 1.119
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.788
When I disable the first tps feature 2.453
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.568
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
12.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.358
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.524
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.721
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.125
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.510
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.905
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.001
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.309
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 16.002
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.280
When I write some files expected to persist 1.226
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.587
# 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" 11.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.159
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 7.757
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 18.257
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.795
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.352
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 21.279
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product
36.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.472
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.191
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.350
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.630
When I enable persistence 12.528
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.471
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.359
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.515
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 10.087
And the computer reboots Tails 35.367
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.225
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.174
Given I enable persistence 6.816
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.221
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.510
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:5.700
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.209
# 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 25.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.254
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.891
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.861
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.253
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.118
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.447
And all notifications have disappeared 7.877
When I delete the persistent partition 2.732
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.277
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.051
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.670
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.272
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.724
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.845
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.293
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.295
And all notifications have disappeared 7.770
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 0.961
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 29.041
And I enable persistence 18.689
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.723
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.576
And persistence is enabled 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 6.946
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.629
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.596
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 8.036
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.167
When I enable persistence 6.480
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.417
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 7.516
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.235
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.616
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.389
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.349
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.441
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.321
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.567
And all notifications have disappeared 9.436
# 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" 0.345
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.436
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.370
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.107
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 7.354
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.515
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.364
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.392
When I log in to a new session 9.557
And all notifications have disappeared 8.152
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.706
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000