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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4628 18 Sep 2026, 11:10

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 22:21.708 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.769
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 1:17.537
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.377
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.194
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.675
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 8.405
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.482
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.164
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.427
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 8.449
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.577
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 5.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.600
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.144
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
27.768
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 7.664
And the system is very low on memory 4.215
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.326
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.436
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.449
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.764
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 8.153
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.195
And all tps features are active 7.298
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.462
When I disable the first tps feature 2.496
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.897
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.351
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.700
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.031
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 7.819
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.041
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I disable the first tps feature 2.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.971
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 7.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.485
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.882
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.095
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 7.379
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.734
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.498
When I write some files expected to persist 0.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.338
# 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" 11.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.053
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 20.421
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 9.270
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.231
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.900
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.537
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.339
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product
37.451
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.492
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.472
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.710
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 8.505
When I enable persistence 21.457
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.869
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.834
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.577
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.975
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
When I cold reboot the computer 6.944
And the computer reboots Tails 32.239
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.265
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 12.095
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.057
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.149
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.680
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.389
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 8.277
# 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 28.332
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.198
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.587
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
36.509
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 7.995
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.314
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.228
And all notifications have disappeared 8.055
When I delete the persistent partition 2.590
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.693
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 7.751
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.179
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.533
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
53.903
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 7.918
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.769
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.654
And all notifications have disappeared 8.300
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 7.509
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.460
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 1:53.720
And I enable persistence 24.453
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.970
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.527
And persistence is enabled 7.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.432
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 7.301
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.693
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.631
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 8.277
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.157
When I enable persistence 12.645
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.214
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 21.237
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.926
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.384
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.081
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.126
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.201
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.120
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 7.903
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.837
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 8.254
And all notifications have disappeared 7.484
# 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" 0.113
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.055
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.021
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.632
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 7.873
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.437
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.266
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.136
When I log in to a new session 8.302
And all notifications have disappeared 7.654
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.095
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000