Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21810-tca-vs-empty-bridge-strings 9 12 Oct 2026, 21:53

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 21:59.520 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:25.921
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 1:14.612
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.309
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.212
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.679
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 8.398
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.574
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.182
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.270
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 8.356
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.386
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.370
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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27.181
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 7.819
And the system is very low on memory 3.890
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.254
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.920
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.075
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.409
And I free up some memory 0.547
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.226
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.448
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 7.982
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
And all tps features are active 8.161
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.553
When I disable the first tps feature 2.435
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.794
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.224
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.714
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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12.918
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 7.588
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.546
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 2.416
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.903
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.501
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.432
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.820
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.727
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 7.622
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 11.739
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.745
When I write some files expected to persist 0.963
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.280
# 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" 11.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.967
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 7.510
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 8.415
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.427
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.563
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.261
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
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35.050
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 8.226
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.322
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 13.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.876
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.488
When I enable persistence 20.285
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.180
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.318
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.197
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.133
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.542
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.779
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 5.868
And the computer reboots Tails 32.324
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
Given I enable persistence 12.064
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.139
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.662
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.930
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 7.908
# 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 29.383
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.938
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.624
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
49.545
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 20.992
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.609
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.838
And all notifications have disappeared 8.181
When I delete the persistent partition 2.570
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.584
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 8.116
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.133
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.111
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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52.533
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 7.685
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.430
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.455
And all notifications have disappeared 8.098
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.203
And all tps features are enabled 6.981
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:32.312
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 1:52.793
And I enable persistence 25.279
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.687
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.484
And persistence is enabled 7.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.100
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 7.505
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.128
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.970
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 8.042
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.644
When I enable persistence 12.429
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.032
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.651
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 7.544
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.491
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.149
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.104
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.106
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.101
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.535
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.801
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.165
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.826
And all notifications have disappeared 7.282
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.054
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.964
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.410
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 7.777
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 1.263
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.342
When I log in to a new session 7.900
And all notifications have disappeared 7.404
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.081
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000