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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4465 22 Jun 2026, 12:11

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 23:8.678 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.164
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.672
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.347
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.834
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.376
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.483
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.796
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.567
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.737
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.479
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.574
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.721
And the system is very low on memory 3.939
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.230
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.501
And I free up some memory 1.017
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.766
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.166
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
And all tps features are active 5.262
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.943
When I disable the first tps feature 2.791
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.307
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.677
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.859
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
Tags: @product
13.812
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.140
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.119
When I disable the first tps feature 3.327
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.735
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I disable the first tps feature 3.071
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.918
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.800
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.544
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.954
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.667
When I write some files expected to persist 1.459
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.405
# 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" 12.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.021
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.791
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.473
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.271
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 12.003
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.439
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
41.907
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.024
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.062
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.812
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.898
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.926
When I enable persistence 18.936
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.250
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.119
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.323
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.249
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.538
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.805
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
When I cold reboot the computer 9.324
And the computer reboots Tails 41.116
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.296
Given I enable persistence 11.468
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.212
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.593
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:22.416
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.091
# 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 27.978
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.251
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.422
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
40.112
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.671
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.487
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.452
And all notifications have disappeared 8.350
When I delete the persistent partition 2.657
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.286
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.978
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.056
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.890
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
52.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.264
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.367
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.894
And all notifications have disappeared 7.978
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.974
And all tps features are enabled 5.343
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
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 36.160
And I enable persistence 25.254
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.704
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.530
And persistence is enabled 6.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
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 7.628
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.717
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.957
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.378
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.075
When I enable persistence 11.951
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.700
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.236
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.150
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.999
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.429
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.138
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.016
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.612
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.086
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 12.517
And all notifications have disappeared 8.356
# 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" 0.179
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.116
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.390
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.455
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.062
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.429
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.762
When I log in to a new session 12.425
And all notifications have disappeared 8.296
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.698
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000