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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4568 26 Aug 2026, 11:18

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 24:19.072 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:50.033
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 1:35.684
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.413
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.593
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 8.815
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.100
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.278
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 logged in 22.643
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.245
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.369
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.332
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product
30.123
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 8.154
And the system is very low on memory 4.694
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.330
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.681
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.336
And I free up some memory 0.469
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.292
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.881
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 8.713
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 8.334
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.027
When I disable the first tps feature 2.451
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.544
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.699
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.942
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.897
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 8.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
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 0.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.465
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 7.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.555
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.947
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.141
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 7.794
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.063
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.845
When I write some files expected to persist 1.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.284
# 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" 11.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.958
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 8.104
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.748
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.856
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 10.969
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.119
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
42.826
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 8.725
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.234
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:0.712
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 8.877
When I enable persistence 23.093
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.985
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.572
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.163
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.557
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.512
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.170
And the computer reboots Tails 35.594
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.204
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
Given I enable persistence 17.357
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.266
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.522
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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2:14.044
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 enabled and logged in 8.715
# 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 29.729
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.704
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.605
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
41.531
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 8.645
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.481
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.050
And all notifications have disappeared 9.257
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.700
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 enabled and logged in 8.062
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.517
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.865
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product
58.948
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 8.987
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.431
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.342
And all notifications have disappeared 8.305
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.216
And all tps features are enabled 8.172
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:48.309
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 2:0.618
And I enable persistence 29.542
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.737
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.585
And persistence is enabled 8.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.741
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 7.745
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.439
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.391
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 8.979
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.058
When I enable persistence 14.293
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.770
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 8.417
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.149
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.182
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.266
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.230
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.739
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 8.269
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.837
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 8.910
And all notifications have disappeared 8.234
# 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" 0.153
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.087
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.165
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.077
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.980
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 7.889
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.273
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.616
When I log in to a new session 8.572
And all notifications have disappeared 7.597
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.447
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000