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test_Tails_ISO_21691-gitlab-triage-use-trusted-image 4 23 Jul 2026, 22:22

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 22:4.379 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.871
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.363
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.296
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.330
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 8.551
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.994
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 8.358
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.758
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.963
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
31.109
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 7.333
And the system is very low on memory 5.679
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.938
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.115
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.837
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.617
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.162
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 8.431
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And all tps features are active 5.744
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.533
When I disable the first tps feature 2.580
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.525
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.783
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.119
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.138
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 7.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.111
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.646
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.565
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.923
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.297
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.541
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.895
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.717
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 7.300
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.816
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.817
When I write some files expected to persist 1.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.374
# 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" 12.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.341
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 7.554
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.136
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.093
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.377
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.424
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.362
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.075
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41.093
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.092
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 12.779
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.695
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 8.495
When I enable persistence 20.587
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.950
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.747
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.312
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.586
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.117
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 6.219
And the computer reboots Tails 37.360
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.188
Given I enable persistence 11.110
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.264
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.733
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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2:15.623
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 7.815
# 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 30.764
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.431
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.017
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.531
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.750
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.638
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.906
And all notifications have disappeared 8.114
When I delete the persistent partition 2.682
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.547
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 7.513
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.770
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.999
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
51.477
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 7.592
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.681
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.335
And all notifications have disappeared 8.030
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.263
And all tps features are enabled 4.851
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.055
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 33.845
And I enable persistence 23.689
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.713
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.552
And persistence is enabled 5.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.834
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 7.146
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.143
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.133
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 7.862
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.093
When I enable persistence 10.528
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.906
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.870
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.796
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.860
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.436
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.269
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 7.244
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.193
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 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.716
And all notifications have disappeared 9.824
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.378
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.289
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.140
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 7.590
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.688
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.716
When I log in to a new session 9.984
And all notifications have disappeared 9.251
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.495
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000