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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4565 22 Aug 2026, 11:10

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 24:4.769 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.329
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 1:16.401
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.071
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.217
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.909
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 8.351
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.350
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.306
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 8.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.125
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.301
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.263
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 7.938
And the system is very low on memory 4.918
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.212
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.582
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.419
And I free up some memory 0.425
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.626
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.723
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 8.263
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 7.879
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.585
When I disable the first tps feature 2.509
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.604
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.244
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.347
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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13.420
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 enabled and logged in 8.122
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.041
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.419
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 7.905
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
And I disable the first tps feature 2.493
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.853
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.815
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 7.548
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 8.386
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.504
When I write some files expected to persist 0.978
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.235
# 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" 11.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.481
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 7.626
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 9.860
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.192
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.370
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 10.673
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
Tags: @product
37.126
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 8.221
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.707
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.714
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 8.214
When I enable persistence 21.581
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.922
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.602
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
# 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 21.889
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 7.139
And the computer reboots Tails 32.596
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.232
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
Given I enable persistence 12.955
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.141
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.609
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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2:8.230
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 8.531
# 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 27.725
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.344
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.478
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
38.893
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 8.200
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.243
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.205
And all notifications have disappeared 8.271
When I delete the persistent partition 2.614
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.514
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 8.034
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.635
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.607
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
57.831
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 8.329
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.078
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.231
And all notifications have disappeared 8.222
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.191
And all tps features are enabled 6.917
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:48.783
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 3:2.372
And I enable persistence 28.698
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.457
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.521
And persistence is enabled 9.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.016
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 20.485
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.073
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.105
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 8.149
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.847
When I enable persistence 14.398
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.044
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 7.993
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.432
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.837
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.155
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.113
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.681
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 8.042
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.626
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.146
And all notifications have disappeared 8.238
# 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" 0.127
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.075
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.132
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.042
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.157
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 8.169
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.965
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.244
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.386
When I log in to a new session 7.745
And all notifications have disappeared 7.480
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.098
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000