Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21472-circumvention-settings-2 10 05 Apr 2026, 02:10

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 20:48.544 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.590
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.772
And I update APT using apt 5.757
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.225
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.081
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 8.632
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.976
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.819
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.329
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.383
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.284
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.393
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.498
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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27.918
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 logged in 7.432
And the system is very low on memory 3.842
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.350
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.129
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.390
And I free up some memory 0.825
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.715
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.403
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 8.191
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
And all tps features are active 1.203
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.109
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.648
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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13.468
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.058
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.124
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.835
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 7.281
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.507
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.831
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.539
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 enabled and logged in 7.237
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.988
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.003
# 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" 11.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.551
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 7.682
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 16.383
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.903
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.479
And I capture all network traffic 0.031
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 21.291
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.451
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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36.271
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.420
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 12.534
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.511
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 8.572
When I enable persistence 11.937
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.064
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.117
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.508
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.871
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
When I cold reboot the computer 8.783
And the computer reboots Tails 35.048
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.277
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.206
Given I enable persistence 6.958
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.202
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.066
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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2:9.976
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 enabled and logged in 8.326
# 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 27.792
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.646
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.186
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.499
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.101
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.837
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.377
And all notifications have disappeared 8.120
When I delete the persistent partition 2.638
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.409
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 enabled and logged in 7.506
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.467
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.136
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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40.395
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 7.880
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.031
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.627
And all notifications have disappeared 8.356
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 0.927
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.922
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 31.143
And I enable persistence 18.155
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.624
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.521
And persistence is enabled 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.973
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 6.940
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.501
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.420
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 8.273
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.683
When I enable persistence 6.504
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.821
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 7.913
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.511
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.413
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.195
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.821
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 7.477
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.408
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 10.534
And all notifications have disappeared 9.206
# 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" 0.150
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.375
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.190
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.245
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.312
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 7.384
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.627
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.298
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.854
When I log in to a new session 10.313
And all notifications have disappeared 8.595
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.268
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000