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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4594 03 Sep 2026, 20:20

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 24:0.913 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.924
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 1:18.721
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.840
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.174
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.981
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 8.769
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.072
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.869
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 8.633
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.244
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.859
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.363
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.411
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
30.997
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 8.255
And the system is very low on memory 5.175
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.257
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.912
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.528
And I free up some memory 0.531
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.146
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.260
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 8.489
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
And all tps features are active 10.058
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.602
When I disable the first tps feature 2.572
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.805
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.228
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.011
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
13.284
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 7.940
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.117
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.534
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.396
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.292
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 7.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.517
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.999
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.751
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 7.851
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.448
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.017
When I write some files expected to persist 0.983
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.216
# 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" 12.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.202
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 7.644
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.478
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.316
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.473
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.499
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
Tags: @product
40.759
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 8.828
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.821
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.293
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.036
When I enable persistence 24.046
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.769
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.398
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.281
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.462
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.005
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 5.963
And the computer reboots Tails 33.824
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 14.082
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.291
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.815
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
2:9.945
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 8.473
# 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 31.405
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.038
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.150
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
41.083
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 8.699
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.796
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.634
And all notifications have disappeared 8.922
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.877
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 8.012
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.334
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.219
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
58.802
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 8.378
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.331
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.868
And all notifications have disappeared 8.540
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.265
And all tps features are enabled 8.515
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.006
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 2:11.512
And I enable persistence 30.758
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.753
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.497
And persistence is enabled 10.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.979
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 7.637
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.828
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.080
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 8.980
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.015
When I enable persistence 15.656
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.617
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 8.044
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.527
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.272
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.315
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.021
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 8.605
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.784
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.388
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 9.355
And all notifications have disappeared 8.096
# 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 0.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.182
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.111
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.881
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 7.967
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.559
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.720
When I log in to a new session 8.296
And all notifications have disappeared 7.541
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.363
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000