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test_Tails_ISO_21691-gitlab-triage-use-trusted-image 6 25 Jul 2026, 21:22

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 21:12.448 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.778
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.134
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.165
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 8.302
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.171
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.356
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 8.284
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.195
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.465
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.648
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.282
And the system is very low on memory 4.449
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.269
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.826
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.152
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.357
And I free up some memory 0.813
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.438
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.794
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 7.780
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
And all tps features are active 4.886
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.822
When I disable the first tps feature 2.436
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.729
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.682
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.271
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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12.836
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 7.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.498
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 6.886
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.607
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.044
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 7.198
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.742
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.714
When I write some files expected to persist 1.015
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.466
# 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" 11.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.557
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 6.947
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.886
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.454
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.045
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 11.499
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
39.707
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.914
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.450
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.665
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 8.264
When I enable persistence 18.873
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.793
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.102
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.488
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.921
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.215
When I cold reboot the computer 6.184
And the computer reboots Tails 37.140
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.293
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 10.589
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.240
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.574
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:10.982
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 7.880
# 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 29.875
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.381
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.499
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
37.552
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 7.225
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.220
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.953
And all notifications have disappeared 8.085
When I delete the persistent partition 2.635
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.700
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 7.223
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.431
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.782
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
49.787
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 7.120
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.677
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.340
And all notifications have disappeared 7.867
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.220
And all tps features are enabled 4.417
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.159
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 32.413
And I enable persistence 24.383
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.611
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.591
And persistence is enabled 5.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.443
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 6.985
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.881
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.593
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 7.782
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.909
When I enable persistence 10.583
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.798
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 7.557
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.698
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.389
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.320
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.152
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 7.256
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.378
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.641
And all notifications have disappeared 9.616
# 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" 0.183
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.418
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.179
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.347
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.026
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 7.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.634
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.657
When I log in to a new session 9.837
And all notifications have disappeared 8.844
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.761
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000