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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4409 22 May 2026, 07:51

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 20:54.710 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.023
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 1:20.694
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.237
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.774
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 9.209
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.377
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.474
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 8.371
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.739
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.692
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.932
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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30.671
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 7.759
And the system is very low on memory 3.674
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.254
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.735
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.395
And I free up some memory 0.805
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.864
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.191
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 8.417
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.397
And all tps features are active 1.207
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.100
When I disable the first tps feature 2.596
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.855
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.242
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.512
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 7.859
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 2.776
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.846
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 7.125
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 2.494
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.915
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.889
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 7.406
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 13.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.177
When I write some files expected to persist 1.401
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.515
# 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" 12.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.208
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.044
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.469
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.446
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.926
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.062
Tags: @product
41.091
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.498
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.135
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.361
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.316
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 8.361
When I enable persistence 14.471
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.931
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.758
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.400
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.637
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.368
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 10.893
And the computer reboots Tails 37.553
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 7.377
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.232
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.179
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:11.544
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 8.542
# 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 27.349
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.148
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.613
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.838
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.806
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.755
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.093
And all notifications have disappeared 7.919
When I delete the persistent partition 2.759
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.762
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 8.236
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.429
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.791
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
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43.674
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 8.625
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.773
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.190
And all notifications have disappeared 7.794
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.452
And all tps features are enabled 1.229
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:5.268
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 31.138
And I enable persistence 20.428
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.184
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 1.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.846
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 6.901
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.440
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.728
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 8.208
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.259
When I enable persistence 6.962
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.549
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 7.936
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.390
When I try to enable persistence 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.003
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.442
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.736
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 7.431
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.006
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.135
And all notifications have disappeared 9.801
# 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" 0.170
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.556
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.247
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.141
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 7.447
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.017
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.392
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.956
When I log in to a new session 12.172
And all notifications have disappeared 8.458
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.791
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000