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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4447 15 Jun 2026, 11:17

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 21:6.775 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.438
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.163
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.208
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.908
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.898
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.906
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.466
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.821
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 9.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
27.605
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.585
And the system is very low on memory 3.306
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.617
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.133
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.344
And I free up some memory 0.955
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.449
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.691
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And all tps features are active 5.047
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.865
When I disable the first tps feature 2.472
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.644
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.038
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.098
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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13.363
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.000
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I disable the first tps feature 2.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.019
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.266
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.647
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.936
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.930
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.444
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.752
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.988
When I write some files expected to persist 1.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.553
# 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" 12.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.685
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.393
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 9.649
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.550
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.781
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 12.678
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.327
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.095
Tags: @product
38.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.583
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.796
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.449
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.619
When I enable persistence 17.527
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.712
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.366
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.217
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.481
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.186
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
When I cold reboot the computer 10.432
And the computer reboots Tails 36.001
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
Given I enable persistence 10.604
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.059
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 9.009
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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2:11.705
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.643
# 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 27.611
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.204
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.672
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
37.414
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 8.411
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.851
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.331
And all notifications have disappeared 7.761
When I delete the persistent partition 2.616
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.341
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.566
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.045
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.369
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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48.128
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.456
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.089
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.642
And all notifications have disappeared 7.655
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.233
And all tps features are enabled 4.674
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:9.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
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 29.984
And I enable persistence 23.248
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.128
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.532
And persistence is enabled 5.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.530
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
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 7.335
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.591
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.614
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.523
When I enable persistence 10.142
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.081
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.210
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.077
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.349
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.650
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.716
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.135
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.097
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 9.985
And all notifications have disappeared 8.534
# 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" 0.433
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.145
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.394
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.987
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.810
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.766
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.402
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.806
When I log in to a new session 10.754
And all notifications have disappeared 7.902
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.547
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000