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test_Tails_ISO_21691-gitlab-triage-use-trusted-image 2 23 Jul 2026, 17:57

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 20:54.723 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.670
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.018
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.252
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.800
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 8.142
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.015
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.257
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.193
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 8.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.672
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
29.203
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.350
And the system is very low on memory 4.506
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.282
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.634
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.146
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.797
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.454
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 7.808
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.392
And all tps features are active 4.880
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.822
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.451
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.671
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.330
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
12.639
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 7.271
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.717
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 7.010
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.524
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.019
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.926
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 enabled and logged in 7.065
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 8.256
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.144
When I write some files expected to persist 1.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.388
# 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" 11.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.819
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 enabled and logged in 7.145
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.093
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.476
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.957
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 11.416
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
Tags: @product
40.591
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.142
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.111
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.954
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.537
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 8.484
When I enable persistence 22.153
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.460
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.129
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.230
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.503
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.093
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
When I cold reboot the computer 6.082
And the computer reboots Tails 35.001
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.259
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.171
Given I enable persistence 10.498
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.213
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.566
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:4.461
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 7.589
# 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 26.460
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.469
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.971
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.644
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 7.494
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.231
Then persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.392
And all notifications have disappeared 8.375
When I delete the persistent partition 2.690
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.415
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 7.457
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.919
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.720
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
47.872
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.284
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.161
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.460
And all notifications have disappeared 7.701
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.232
And all tps features are enabled 4.835
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.748
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 31.079
And I enable persistence 23.435
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.706
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And persistence is enabled 4.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
24.764
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 6.899
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.322
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.697
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 7.410
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.552
When I enable persistence 10.352
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.327
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 7.250
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.512
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.499
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.451
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.874
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 7.291
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.563
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 9.804
And all notifications have disappeared 9.169
# 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" 0.126
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.166
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.318
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.275
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 7.063
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.783
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.984
When I log in to a new session 9.340
And all notifications have disappeared 9.404
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.394
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000