Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_fix-bad-comments 1 01 Jul 2026, 13:58

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 22:18.222 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.636
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.519
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.319
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.401
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 9.011
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.711
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.640
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 8.453
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.308
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 9.795
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.319
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.188
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.291
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 7.644
And the system is very low on memory 3.681
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.712
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.394
And I free up some memory 0.820
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.707
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.798
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 8.253
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And all tps features are active 6.077
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.341
When I disable the first tps feature 2.637
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.028
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.097
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.543
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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13.023
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 7.534
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.580
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.127
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 7.318
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.613
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.919
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.517
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 7.639
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.284
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.963
When I write some files expected to persist 1.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.947
# 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" 12.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.052
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 7.510
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.342
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.733
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.603
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 11.952
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.416
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
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40.240
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 8.602
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.609
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.410
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 8.338
When I enable persistence 18.549
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.007
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.532
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.498
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.895
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 6.398
And the computer reboots Tails 36.472
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.267
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 10.728
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.211
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.380
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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2:19.509
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 8.536
# 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 29.482
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.411
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.958
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.840
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 8.409
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.188
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.210
And all notifications have disappeared 7.818
When I delete the persistent partition 2.738
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.111
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 8.028
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.559
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.165
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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50.601
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 8.017
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.257
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.253
And all notifications have disappeared 7.479
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.260
And all tps features are enabled 5.409
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:11.936
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 31.386
And I enable persistence 24.353
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.932
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.648
And persistence is enabled 5.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.756
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 7.140
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.045
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.609
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 7.527
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.033
When I enable persistence 10.902
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.363
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 7.625
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.161
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.161
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.474
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.152
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.949
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 7.458
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.525
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 12.129
And all notifications have disappeared 9.625
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.346
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.289
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.733
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 7.492
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.890
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.366
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.132
When I log in to a new session 11.471
And all notifications have disappeared 8.459
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.894
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000