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test_Tails_ISO_21691-gitlab-triage-use-trusted-image 7 26 Jul 2026, 21:24

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 22:6.018 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.125
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 1:21.303
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.319
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.311
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.233
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 8.483
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.217
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.440
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 8.481
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.616
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.863
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.807
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
31.595
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 7.226
And the system is very low on memory 4.537
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.844
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.361
And I free up some memory 0.803
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.491
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.052
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 8.212
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
And all tps features are active 5.742
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.215
When I disable the first tps feature 2.681
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.926
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.685
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.106
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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13.224
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 7.818
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.801
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 7.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.584
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.875
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.174
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 7.306
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.625
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.309
When I write some files expected to persist 1.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.366
# 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" 12.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.433
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.170
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.930
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.214
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.754
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.532
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
43.174
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 8.042
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.151
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.173
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.236
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 8.348
When I enable persistence 19.018
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.881
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.306
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.507
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.789
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.190
When I cold reboot the computer 6.142
And the computer reboots Tails 37.703
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
Given I enable persistence 11.022
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.453
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.594
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.715
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 7.962
# 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 28.836
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.584
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.849
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product
43.157
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 8.383
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.297
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.966
And all notifications have disappeared 8.332
When I delete the persistent partition 2.713
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.596
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 7.297
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.360
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.655
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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51.551
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 7.755
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.320
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.767
And all notifications have disappeared 8.009
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.242
And all tps features are enabled 4.746
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.234
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
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 34.707
And I enable persistence 25.038
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.316
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.554
And persistence is enabled 5.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.183
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 7.607
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.989
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.471
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 8.167
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.240
When I enable persistence 10.452
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.994
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.125
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.831
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.844
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.316
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.190
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.521
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 7.302
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.788
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I log in to a new session 11.125
And all notifications have disappeared 9.703
# 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" 0.138
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.401
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.181
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.265
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.099
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 7.768
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.746
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.435
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.199
When I log in to a new session 11.023
And all notifications have disappeared 9.345
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.455
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000