Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_fix-tca-wrapper-gettext 2 09 Jun 2026, 22:54

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 21:3.257 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.043
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.137
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.757
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.314
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.927
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.173
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.306
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.694
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.113
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.448
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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29.484
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.743
And the system is very low on memory 4.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.186
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.859
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.450
And I free up some memory 0.882
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.935
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:33.598
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 1.318
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.880
When I disable the first tps feature 2.998
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.985
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.073
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.580
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 3.044
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.999
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.315
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.546
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.949
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
41.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.760
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 13.183
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.155
When I write some files expected to persist 1.387
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.921
# 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" 12.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.924
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.557
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.915
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.817
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.229
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.620
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.055
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40.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.300
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.169
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:54.721
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.546
When I enable persistence 14.253
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.021
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.667
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.335
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.562
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.625
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.304
And the computer reboots Tails 39.704
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.355
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 7.513
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.092
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.296
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.654
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.057
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2:10.568
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.601
# 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 26.550
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.643
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.861
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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39.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.901
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.919
Then persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.152
And all notifications have disappeared 7.971
When I delete the persistent partition 2.836
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.226
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.950
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.507
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.354
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.024
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43.067
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.477
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.768
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.803
And all notifications have disappeared 7.874
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.338
And all tps features are enabled 1.266
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 32.500
And I enable persistence 19.755
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.545
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.675
And persistence is enabled 1.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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23.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.001
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.498
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.962
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.470
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.775
When I enable persistence 6.841
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.504
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.820
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.270
When I try to enable persistence 1.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.101
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.443
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.593
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.406
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 11.872
And all notifications have disappeared 9.051
# 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" 0.139
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.511
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.285
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.045
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.564
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.697
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.793
When I log in to a new session 11.898
And all notifications have disappeared 7.845
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.551
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000