Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_drop-cloudfront-workaround 1 30 Sep 2026, 15:10

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 26:44.589 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:6.905
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 1:23.658
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.590
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.729
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.112
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 9.594
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And persistence is disabled 0.152
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.732
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.105
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.271
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.498
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.178
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.149
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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32.229
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 8.232
And the system is very low on memory 4.889
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.205
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.640
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.464
And I free up some memory 0.467
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.190
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:0.614
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 8.816
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 9.257
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.322
When I disable the first tps feature 3.032
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.208
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.142
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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14.243
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 8.183
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 3.069
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 2.511
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.595
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 enabled and logged in 8.039
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.530
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.869
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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48.239
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 7.762
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 13.019
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.054
When I write some files expected to persist 1.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.441
# 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" 12.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.511
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 7.884
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 8.820
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.583
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.961
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 11.515
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.328
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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41.244
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.526
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.256
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.181
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 8.936
When I enable persistence 24.753
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.947
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.265
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.421
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.337
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.610
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.134
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 6.120
And the computer reboots Tails 34.331
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.374
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.163
Given I enable persistence 14.281
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.312
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.872
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:12.774
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 8.364
# 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 29.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.348
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.543
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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43.723
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 9.485
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.867
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.255
And all notifications have disappeared 9.017
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.945
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 11.887
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.071
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.573
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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1:4.881
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 9.511
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.719
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.443
And all notifications have disappeared 9.190
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.395
And all tps features are enabled 10.364
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:59.836
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:7.531
And I enable persistence 33.024
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.924
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.552
And persistence is enabled 10.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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48.173
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 21.377
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.161
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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48.927
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 9.754
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.559
When I enable persistence 17.599
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.477
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 8.519
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.175
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.692
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.208
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.265
Then persistence is successfully enabled 5.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.532
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 8.415
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.089
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 8.812
And all notifications have disappeared 7.526
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.118
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.251
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.497
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.706
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 8.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.681
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.476
When I log in to a new session 9.994
And all notifications have disappeared 7.406
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.112
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000