Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21472-circumvention-settings-2 9 04 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 20:40.310 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.593
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 1:18.457
And I update APT using apt 6.003
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.863
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 8.327
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.692
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.222
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.667
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 8.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.943
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.420
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.647
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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27.327
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 7.551
And the system is very low on memory 3.131
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.210
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.427
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.342
And I free up some memory 0.804
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.668
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.339
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 8.402
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
And all tps features are active 1.121
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.855
When I disable the first tps feature 2.545
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.286
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.981
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 7.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.530
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.299
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.453
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.823
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.860
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 7.297
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 15.551
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.260
When I write some files expected to persist 1.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.758
# 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" 11.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.157
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 7.698
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 16.712
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.677
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.190
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 21.130
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.425
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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38.494
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.463
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.764
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.291
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 8.341
When I enable persistence 12.421
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.380
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.235
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.278
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.116
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 10.105
And the computer reboots Tails 34.977
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 6.954
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.235
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.560
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:2.132
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 8.262
# 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 24.614
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.225
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.421
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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35.644
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 7.831
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.519
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.260
And all notifications have disappeared 7.862
When I delete the persistent partition 2.694
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.357
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 7.736
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.331
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.990
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.902
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 7.577
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.126
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.663
And all notifications have disappeared 8.074
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 0.939
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.773
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 29.740
And I enable persistence 19.329
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.521
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.494
And persistence is enabled 1.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.251
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 7.177
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.499
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.502
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.053
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.995
When I enable persistence 6.833
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.052
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 7.425
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.357
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.295
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.347
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.183
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.764
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 7.285
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.588
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.755
And all notifications have disappeared 9.807
# 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" 0.170
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.439
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.223
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.553
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 7.557
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.143
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.307
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.536
When I log in to a new session 9.385
And all notifications have disappeared 8.494
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.303
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000