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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4577 30 Aug 2026, 11:13

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 22:53.714 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.786
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.480
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.324
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.612
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 8.581
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.639
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.258
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.818
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 8.569
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.235
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.641
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 5.579
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
Tags: @product
28.958
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 8.173
And the system is very low on memory 4.395
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.633
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.139
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.339
And I free up some memory 0.465
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.599
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.404
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 8.444
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And all tps features are active 7.716
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.293
When I disable the first tps feature 2.450
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.477
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.479
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.057
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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13.188
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 7.921
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.118
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.393
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.297
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 7.847
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.484
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.774
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.748
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 7.717
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.516
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.857
When I write some files expected to persist 1.156
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.390
# 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" 11.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.258
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 7.877
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.626
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.177
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.650
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.150
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.429
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.046
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.093
Tags: @product
38.938
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 8.624
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.089
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.079
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 8.619
When I enable persistence 21.865
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.428
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.204
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.366
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.480
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.712
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
When I cold reboot the computer 5.940
And the computer reboots Tails 34.587
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.331
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.206
Given I enable persistence 12.586
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.313
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.746
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
2:9.810
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 7.980
# 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 27.234
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.549
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.061
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
37.925
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 8.065
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.242
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.078
And all notifications have disappeared 7.453
When I delete the persistent partition 2.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.701
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 8.144
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.544
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.757
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
57.776
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 8.052
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.876
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.187
And all notifications have disappeared 8.286
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.243
And all tps features are enabled 8.008
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:40.779
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 1:58.334
And I enable persistence 26.590
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.741
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.495
And persistence is enabled 7.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.948
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.815
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.602
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.878
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 8.235
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.297
When I enable persistence 13.030
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.273
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 8.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.439
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.465
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.148
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.105
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.514
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.073
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.554
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 8.552
And all notifications have disappeared 7.299
# 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 0.054
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.285
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.515
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 8.172
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.173
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.293
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.764
When I log in to a new session 8.398
And all notifications have disappeared 7.576
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.114
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000