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test_Tails_ISO_security-issues 1 24 Aug 2026, 13:11

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 24:25.788 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.223
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 1:20.971
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.255
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.309
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.016
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 15.493
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.217
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.918
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 9.117
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.650
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 5.343
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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31.231
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 8.909
And the system is very low on memory 4.733
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.377
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.080
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.367
And I free up some memory 0.634
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.854
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:0.600
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 enabled and logged in 9.032
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
And all tps features are active 8.578
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.115
When I disable the first tps feature 2.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.765
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.661
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.503
Then all tps features but the first one are active 11.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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14.527
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 9.097
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.703
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 8.067
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.485
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.941
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.446
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 enabled and logged in 8.169
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 10.058
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.396
When I write some files expected to persist 1.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.739
# 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" 11.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.800
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 8.576
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 8.749
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 5.206
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.260
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 12.251
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
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42.036
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.447
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.977
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.232
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 9.665
When I enable persistence 25.325
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.513
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.461
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.145
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.461
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.388
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 6.294
And the computer reboots Tails 34.951
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.250
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 14.666
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.171
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.945
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:12.568
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 8.746
# 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 30.422
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.457
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.232
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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41.209
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 9.272
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.318
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.721
And all notifications have disappeared 8.827
When I delete the persistent partition 2.688
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.587
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 9.353
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.097
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.679
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.246
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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1:1.307
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 8.768
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.293
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.891
And all notifications have disappeared 8.693
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.253
And all tps features are enabled 8.267
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.205
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 2:5.316
And I enable persistence 31.824
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.050
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.551
And persistence is enabled 9.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.087
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 8.016
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.590
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.455
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 8.879
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.377
When I enable persistence 13.755
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.591
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 9.615
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.196
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.233
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.465
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.243
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.174
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 8.050
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.932
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.117
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.735
And all notifications have disappeared 7.121
# 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" 0.204
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.195
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.467
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.726
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.523
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.288
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.882
When I log in to a new session 8.607
And all notifications have disappeared 7.675
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.220
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000