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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4616 14 Sep 2026, 18:34

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 23:42.198 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.865
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.325
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.554
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.554
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 9.150
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.873
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.619
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 8.758
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.257
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.504
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.417
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.696
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 7.987
And the system is very low on memory 4.417
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.273
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" 0.076
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.337
And I free up some memory 0.486
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.490
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:3.005
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 8.429
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
And all tps features are active 11.535
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.785
When I disable the first tps feature 2.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 11.316
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.894
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.435
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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14.100
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 8.306
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.679
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.603
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.390
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 7.949
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.487
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.754
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.547
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 7.659
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.253
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.203
When I write some files expected to persist 1.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.604
# 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" 11.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.411
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 7.845
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.583
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.688
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.435
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 11.028
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.082
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40.212
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 8.823
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.797
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.788
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 8.911
When I enable persistence 25.195
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.876
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.860
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.137
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.404
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.205
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 6.257
And the computer reboots Tails 32.913
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.290
Given I enable persistence 14.386
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.966
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
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2:6.858
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 8.616
# 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 27.771
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.287
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.762
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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40.606
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 8.036
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.443
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.738
And all notifications have disappeared 9.388
When I delete the persistent partition 2.627
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.751
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 8.172
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.205
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.098
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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1:0.271
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 8.385
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.467
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.297
And all notifications have disappeared 8.174
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.249
And all tps features are enabled 9.794
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.399
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 2:2.566
And I enable persistence 29.086
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.294
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.569
And persistence is enabled 8.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.231
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
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 7.864
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.938
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.379
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 8.714
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.168
When I enable persistence 14.196
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.775
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 8.159
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.424
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.100
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.096
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.617
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.133
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.276
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 8.299
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.413
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.098
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 8.067
And all notifications have disappeared 7.756
# 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" 0.243
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.102
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.169
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.454
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 8.017
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.961
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.334
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.070
When I log in to a new session 8.589
And all notifications have disappeared 7.113
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.299
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000