Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21472-circumvention-settings-2 5 31 Mar 2026, 02:36

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 26:46.801 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:45.523
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:31.878
And I update APT using apt 6.617
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.249
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.381
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 9.010
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.580
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.433
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 31.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:7.388
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 8.756
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.697
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.198
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 36.745
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.494
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.894
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.383
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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43.527
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 7.405
And the system is very low on memory 13.153
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 5.949
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.925
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.766
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.784
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.134
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 8.723
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.786
And all tps features are active 1.191
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.918
When I disable the first tps feature 2.603
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.647
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.954
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.541
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 7.626
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.258
When I disable the first tps feature 2.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.110
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 7.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.132
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 2.541
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.808
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.470
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 7.161
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 19.600
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.225
When I write some files expected to persist 1.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.911
# 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" 12.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.494
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 7.524
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 19.502
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.161
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.183
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.376
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
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58.257
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.418
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 21.740
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.504
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 9.124
When I enable persistence 38.404
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.651
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.837
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.268
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.414
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 10.795
And the computer reboots Tails 37.481
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 6.902
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.207
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.685
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:32.783
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 8.038
# 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 39.866
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.222
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.792
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
52.527
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 7.765
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.597
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.403
And all notifications have disappeared 8.586
When I delete the persistent partition 2.656
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.777
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 7.452
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.944
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.978
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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48.313
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 7.567
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.618
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.975
And all notifications have disappeared 8.107
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 1.284
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.358
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 43.951
And I enable persistence 31.538
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.574
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.502
And persistence is enabled 1.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.862
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 7.357
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.897
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.090
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 8.277
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 35.077
When I enable persistence 7.043
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.037
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 8.111
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 22.176
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.739
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.310
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.165
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.439
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 7.755
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.136
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 19.615
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 11.355
And all notifications have disappeared 9.412
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.354
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.180
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.203
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.276
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 7.776
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 27.811
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.301
When I try to enable persistence 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.044
When I log in to a new session 12.695
And all notifications have disappeared 7.983
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.595
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000