Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21706-dont-use-efficient-cores 5 11 Aug 2026, 21:11

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 23:22.727 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.047
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 1:20.606
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.424
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.310
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.030
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 8.873
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.590
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.136
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 8.491
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.830
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.878
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.212
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.921
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 8.037
And the system is very low on memory 4.671
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.232
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.963
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.327
And I free up some memory 0.522
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.006
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:3.732
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 9.080
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And all tps features are active 9.920
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.709
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.385
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.991
Then all tps features but the first one are active 15.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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15.535
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 10.273
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.039
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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14.549
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 7.864
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.044
And I disable the first tps feature 3.645
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.877
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.016
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 7.568
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 8.334
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.035
When I write some files expected to persist 0.947
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.525
# 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" 11.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.703
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 8.008
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 12.882
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.401
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.879
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.755
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
Tags: @product
40.077
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 8.788
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.427
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.958
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 9.086
When I enable persistence 23.245
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.667
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.249
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.601
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.385
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.502
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.246
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
When I cold reboot the computer 5.777
And the computer reboots Tails 33.846
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
Given I enable persistence 13.371
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.057
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.199
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.921
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:8.001
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 8.250
# 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 26.916
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.771
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
39.425
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 8.243
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.361
Then persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.294
And all notifications have disappeared 8.488
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.463
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 7.893
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.620
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.677
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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57.266
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 8.472
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.603
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.495
And all notifications have disappeared 8.234
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.250
And all tps features are enabled 7.570
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.235
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 1:55.806
And I enable persistence 26.876
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.361
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.576
And persistence is enabled 7.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.914
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 7.586
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.882
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.287
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 8.459
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.061
When I enable persistence 14.492
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.199
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 7.993
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.225
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.230
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.234
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.934
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.276
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.084
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 8.036
And all notifications have disappeared 6.645
# 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" 0.249
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.136
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.216
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.062
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.396
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 7.937
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.060
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.308
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.461
When I log in to a new session 7.691
And all notifications have disappeared 6.459
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.200
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000