Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21769-fix-chutney-configure-freeze 1 30 Sep 2026, 17:50

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 24:14.690 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.689
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 1:20.715
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.842
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.321
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.804
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 8.548
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.319
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.020
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.962
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.854
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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30.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.570
And the system is very low on memory 4.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.280
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.029
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 2.599
And I free up some memory 0.537
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.714
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:59.503
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 8.795
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
And all tps features are active 8.828
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.826
When I disable the first tps feature 2.604
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.681
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.780
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.351
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.042
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14.122
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 2.702
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.467
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 7.757
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.552
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.994
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.144
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 7.751
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.434
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.044
When I write some files expected to persist 1.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.483
# 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" 12.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.898
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.877
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 9.954
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.420
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.499
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.353
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
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41.135
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 8.426
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.586
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.352
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 8.670
When I enable persistence 22.855
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.801
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.644
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.393
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.306
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.604
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.084
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 4.777
And the computer reboots Tails 34.365
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.220
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.116
Given I enable persistence 13.873
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.057
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.157
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.152
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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2:12.838
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 8.292
# 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 28.355
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.587
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.534
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.706
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 9.211
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.969
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.476
And all notifications have disappeared 9.018
When I delete the persistent partition 2.675
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.864
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 8.744
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.295
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.565
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
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59.740
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 8.330
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.300
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.088
And all notifications have disappeared 8.542
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 8.589
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:57.696
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 2:7.375
And I enable persistence 29.348
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.891
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.499
And persistence is enabled 11.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.707
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 7.791
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.345
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.259
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 8.802
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.767
When I enable persistence 13.667
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.087
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 8.229
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.161
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.129
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.245
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.542
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 8.151
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.993
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 10.147
And all notifications have disappeared 8.682
# 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" 0.237
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.137
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.255
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.576
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.157
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 8.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.992
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.415
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.103
When I log in to a new session 8.717
And all notifications have disappeared 7.472
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.302
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000