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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4452 16 Jun 2026, 17:49

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 22:29.650 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.804
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.843
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.700
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.329
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.305
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.196
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.248
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.599
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.045
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.873
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.033
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.654
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.343
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
30.143
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.238
And the system is very low on memory 3.847
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.179
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.643
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 1.041
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.610
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.173
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 8.637
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.456
And all tps features are active 6.004
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.557
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.680
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.335
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.815
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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14.074
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.641
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.662
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.956
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.438
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 7.471
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.899
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.116
When I write some files expected to persist 1.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.386
# 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" 12.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.436
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 8.042
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.942
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.853
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.238
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.694
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.363
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
Tags: @product
42.493
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 8.553
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 15.809
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.582
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.356
When I enable persistence 18.708
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.854
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.590
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
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" 4.518
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.686
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.203
When I cold reboot the computer 9.318
And the computer reboots Tails 38.940
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.199
Given I enable persistence 11.663
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.252
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.174
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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2:11.672
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 8.990
# 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 24.374
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.059
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.188
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
39.936
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.629
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.947
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.938
And all notifications have disappeared 8.136
When I delete the persistent partition 2.762
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.472
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 8.285
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.951
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.853
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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48.879
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.041
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.999
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.118
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.624
And all notifications have disappeared 7.775
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 4.767
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.386
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.210
And I enable persistence 25.405
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.654
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.589
And persistence is enabled 6.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.402
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.714
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.113
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.200
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 8.453
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.407
When I enable persistence 11.951
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.853
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 7.932
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.644
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.336
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.563
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.103
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.373
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.397
And all notifications have disappeared 9.794
# 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" 0.157
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.638
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.222
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.477
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.682
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 8.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.412
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.353
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.613
When I log in to a new session 11.662
And all notifications have disappeared 8.720
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.808
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000