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test_Tails_ISO_stable 6221 22 Mar 2026, 11:25

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 25:48.260 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.703
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:28.005
And I update APT using apt 6.293
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.393
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.301
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.990
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.879
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.247
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.627
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.291
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.597
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.151
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.491
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.273
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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38.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.975
And the system is very low on memory 11.201
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.099
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.471
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.414
And I free up some memory 0.849
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.655
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:51.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.814
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
And all tps features are active 1.322
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.564
When I disable the first tps feature 3.134
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.435
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.505
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.488
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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14.271
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.210
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 3.161
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.892
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.209
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 3.032
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.028
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.989
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 20.391
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.364
When I write some files expected to persist 1.478
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.362
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 13.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.985
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 17.374
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.282
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.922
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 42.640
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.493
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
52.508
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.190
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.160
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.743
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.691
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.232
When I enable persistence 24.921
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.561
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.974
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.319
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 7.812
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.554
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
When I cold reboot the computer 10.896
And the computer reboots Tails 40.565
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
Given I enable persistence 9.153
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.244
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.126
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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2:29.209
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.705
# 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 40.319
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.162
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.456
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
52.054
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.789
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.225
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.771
And all notifications have disappeared 9.129
When I delete the persistent partition 2.701
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.682
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.974
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.441
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.928
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
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48.754
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.473
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.197
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.468
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.745
And all notifications have disappeared 8.132
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.339
And all tps features are enabled 1.059
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 42.030
And I enable persistence 22.483
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.716
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.652
And persistence is enabled 1.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.870
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 7.636
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.690
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.503
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.895
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 22.028
When I enable persistence 6.787
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.397
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.737
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.986
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.261
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.569
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.099
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.333
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.694
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.473
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.435
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 13.543
And all notifications have disappeared 9.899
# 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" 0.187
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.592
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.184
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.577
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.248
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.362
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.421
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.666
When I log in to a new session 12.318
And all notifications have disappeared 9.605
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.895
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000