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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4623 17 Sep 2026, 11:19

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 23:46.438 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.146
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.210
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.998
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.159
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 8.974
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.076
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 8.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.667
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
29.634
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 8.492
And the system is very low on memory 4.239
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.244
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.562
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.148
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.433
And I free up some memory 0.469
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.000
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.212
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.592
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
And all tps features are active 8.691
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.096
When I disable the first tps feature 2.618
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.097
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.644
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.066
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
14.153
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 8.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.751
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.070
When I enable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.905
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 8.165
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.570
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.975
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.731
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 7.995
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 11.470
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.602
When I write some files expected to persist 1.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.315
# 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" 12.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.700
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 7.823
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 10.251
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.451
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.009
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.341
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product
38.182
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 8.661
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.536
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.576
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 8.380
When I enable persistence 22.652
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.982
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.427
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.343
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.328
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.455
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.509
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 5.928
And the computer reboots Tails 34.002
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
Given I enable persistence 13.445
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.327
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.722
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:16.825
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 8.946
# 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 35.821
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.427
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.182
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
40.900
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 8.656
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.051
Then persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.090
And all notifications have disappeared 8.899
When I delete the persistent partition 2.785
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.176
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 8.370
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.541
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.990
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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1:0.537
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.779
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.811
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.126
And all notifications have disappeared 8.703
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.357
And all tps features are enabled 8.846
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.989
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 2:3.910
And I enable persistence 27.856
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.502
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.582
And persistence is enabled 8.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.674
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.801
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.341
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.531
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 8.968
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.219
When I enable persistence 14.375
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.826
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 8.457
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.987
When I try to enable persistence 1.340
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.770
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.271
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.127
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.903
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 8.324
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.979
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 9.380
And all notifications have disappeared 6.962
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.099
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.216
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.209
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.592
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 8.289
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.164
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.596
When I log in to a new session 8.596
And all notifications have disappeared 8.374
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.150
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000