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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4562 20 Aug 2026, 11:20

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 24:10.736 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.018
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 1:19.254
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.632
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.589
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 8.602
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.204
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.173
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 9.158
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.197
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.147
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.027
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.206
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.507
And the system is very low on memory 4.616
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.185
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.080
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.357
And I free up some memory 0.547
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.606
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.293
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 21.981
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And all tps features are active 7.829
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.945
When I disable the first tps feature 2.563
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.611
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.312
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.390
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
14.257
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 8.738
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.621
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.232
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 7.926
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.003
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.059
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.376
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 enabled and logged in 7.815
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.419
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.308
When I write some files expected to persist 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.494
# 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" 12.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.297
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 8.017
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 11.508
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.531
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.370
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.074
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.409
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
40.180
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.849
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.096
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.765
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 8.728
When I enable persistence 21.948
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.878
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.619
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.206
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.455
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.125
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 6.369
And the computer reboots Tails 35.257
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.207
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 16.048
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.147
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.804
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
2:10.228
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 8.689
# 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 26.578
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.585
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.419
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.242
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.407
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.042
And all notifications have disappeared 8.230
When I delete the persistent partition 2.612
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.389
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 8.078
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.758
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.290
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
59.759
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.647
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.247
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.065
And all notifications have disappeared 8.759
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.265
And all tps features are enabled 8.975
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.590
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:5.182
And I enable persistence 28.890
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.883
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.635
And persistence is enabled 8.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.692
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 7.709
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.406
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.680
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 8.873
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.108
When I enable persistence 14.291
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.106
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.161
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 8.250
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.474
When I try to enable persistence 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.888
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.089
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.286
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.664
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 8.298
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.424
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.099
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 8.586
And all notifications have disappeared 7.485
# 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" 0.188
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.091
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.181
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.262
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.360
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 8.516
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.448
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.188
When I log in to a new session 8.720
And all notifications have disappeared 6.964
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.170
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000