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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4462 20 Jun 2026, 11:21

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 21:27.326 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.070
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.916
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.014
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.845
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 9.024
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.821
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.236
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.796
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.091
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.534
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.862
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
28.163
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 7.597
And the system is very low on memory 3.338
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.705
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.078
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.347
And I free up some memory 1.018
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.833
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.893
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 8.565
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.361
And all tps features are active 4.744
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.989
When I disable the first tps feature 2.499
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.022
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.486
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.111
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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13.025
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 7.738
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.157
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 7.569
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.889
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.610
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 enabled and logged in 7.221
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.768
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.773
When I write some files expected to persist 1.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.663
# 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" 11.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.802
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 7.597
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.235
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.720
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.396
And I capture all network traffic 0.014
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.073
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.440
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
Tags: @product
39.752
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.915
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.458
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.623
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 8.621
When I enable persistence 17.595
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.722
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.328
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.371
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 24.548
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 10.273
And the computer reboots Tails 35.869
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.160
Given I enable persistence 11.003
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.207
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.537
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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2:13.037
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 8.452
# 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 27.943
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.492
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.691
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
36.049
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 7.974
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.157
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.183
And all notifications have disappeared 7.636
When I delete the persistent partition 2.631
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.596
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 enabled and logged in 7.995
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.765
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.530
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
48.069
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 7.988
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.457
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.917
And all notifications have disappeared 7.615
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.302
And all tps features are enabled 4.615
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:9.520
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 30.874
And I enable persistence 23.225
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.936
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is enabled 4.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.131
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.031
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 7.049
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.546
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.059
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 8.447
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.849
When I enable persistence 10.354
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.365
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.031
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.951
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.932
When I try to enable persistence 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.486
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.288
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.152
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.298
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 7.620
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.756
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 10.365
And all notifications have disappeared 9.314
# 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" 0.186
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.409
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.322
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.458
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 7.632
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.964
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.649
When I log in to a new session 10.214
And all notifications have disappeared 9.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.483
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000