Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_drop-cloudfront-workaround 2 30 Sep 2026, 18:06

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 25:35.209 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.956
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.828
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.818
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.633
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.603
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 8.823
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.182
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.062
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 9.163
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.645
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.624
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.820
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.267
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 8.343
And the system is very low on memory 5.393
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.209
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.713
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.406
And I free up some memory 0.601
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.432
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.841
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.137
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.392
And all tps features are active 8.497
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.876
When I disable the first tps feature 2.666
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.651
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.541
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.887
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 8.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.585
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.721
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 7.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.945
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.817
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:1.563
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 21.615
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 11.636
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.333
When I write some files expected to persist 1.305
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.149
# 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" 12.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.697
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 7.766
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 9.600
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.877
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.577
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 11.101
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 2.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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42.087
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.240
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.875
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.574
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 9.390
When I enable persistence 24.457
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.071
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.393
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.453
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.317
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.611
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.621
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 5.996
And the computer reboots Tails 35.868
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
Given I enable persistence 14.724
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.148
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.754
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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2:13.643
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 9.447
# 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 31.279
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.602
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.721
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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40.801
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.157
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.990
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.461
And all notifications have disappeared 8.159
When I delete the persistent partition 2.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.181
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 enabled and logged in 37.042
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.484
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.284
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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59.843
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.604
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.535
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.876
And all notifications have disappeared 8.475
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.296
And all tps features are enabled 8.497
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.190
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 2:0.865
And I enable persistence 28.918
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.266
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.781
And persistence is enabled 8.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.542
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.157
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.880
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.424
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 9.184
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.788
When I enable persistence 15.868
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.723
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 9.450
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.426
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.846
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.442
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.082
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.681
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 8.726
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.757
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 9.824
And all notifications have disappeared 7.250
# 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" 0.155
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.293
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.913
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 10.305
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.295
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.297
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.267
When I log in to a new session 8.407
And all notifications have disappeared 6.799
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.427
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000