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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4446 14 Jun 2026, 11:22

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 20:56.156 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.835
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.171
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.561
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.257
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.743
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
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 log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.775
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.106
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.313
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.334
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.529
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
28.237
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.317
And the system is very low on memory 3.750
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.261
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.725
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.420
And I free up some memory 0.818
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.808
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.607
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.413
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 4.811
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.762
When I disable the first tps feature 2.486
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.861
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.665
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.622
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
12.831
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.808
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.197
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.866
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.283
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 11.961
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.963
When I write some files expected to persist 1.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.581
# 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" 11.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.679
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.249
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 8.271
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.526
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.302
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.638
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
39.448
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.499
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.778
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.569
When I enable persistence 16.126
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.831
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.242
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.496
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.784
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
When I cold reboot the computer 10.264
And the computer reboots Tails 35.204
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.227
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.173
Given I enable persistence 10.064
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.191
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.033
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
2:9.896
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.256
# 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 25.208
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.870
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.679
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
36.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.024
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.858
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.630
And all notifications have disappeared 7.824
When I delete the persistent partition 2.714
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.652
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.759
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.116
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.515
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
47.567
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.854
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.775
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.412
And all notifications have disappeared 7.530
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.252
And all tps features are enabled 4.496
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:7.889
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
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 29.201
And I enable persistence 23.752
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.448
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
And persistence is enabled 4.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.971
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
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 7.154
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.229
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.097
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.506
When I enable persistence 10.727
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.231
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.432
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.795
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.393
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.185
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.141
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.247
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.508
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.200
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 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.423
And all notifications have disappeared 8.646
# 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" 0.322
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.478
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.357
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.736
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.587
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.296
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.306
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.078
When I log in to a new session 10.026
And all notifications have disappeared 8.693
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.789
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000