Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_fix-tca-wrapper-gettext 3 10 Jun 2026, 22:55

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 21:0.511 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.277
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.078
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.052
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.284
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.367
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 8.458
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.753
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.220
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.642
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.761
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.409
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.376
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.258
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.195
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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29.046
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 7.806
And the system is very low on memory 3.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.897
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.134
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.445
And I free up some memory 0.992
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.209
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.019
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 8.470
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
And all tps features are active 1.410
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.169
When I disable the first tps feature 2.695
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.499
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.909
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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12.768
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 7.358
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.524
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.010
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 7.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.544
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.876
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.646
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 7.389
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 13.224
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.158
When I write some files expected to persist 1.253
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.056
# 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" 12.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.307
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 7.520
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.139
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.650
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.886
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.351
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
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42.320
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.023
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.061
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:57.463
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 8.815
When I enable persistence 14.477
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.646
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.892
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.306
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.583
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.705
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 10.875
And the computer reboots Tails 40.193
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.191
Given I enable persistence 7.211
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.264
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:9.837
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 8.184
# 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 28.657
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.581
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.766
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
40.209
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 7.939
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.383
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.244
And all notifications have disappeared 8.281
When I delete the persistent partition 2.857
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.879
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 enabled and logged in 7.816
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.455
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.273
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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41.665
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 7.849
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.692
And all notifications have disappeared 7.971
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.310
And all tps features are enabled 1.134
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.313
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.447
And I enable persistence 19.945
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.696
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.551
And persistence is enabled 1.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.333
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.885
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.936
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.142
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 7.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.723
When I enable persistence 6.850
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.227
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 7.799
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.427
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.481
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.645
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.220
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.790
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 7.553
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.078
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 11.358
And all notifications have disappeared 9.888
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.542
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.233
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.401
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:335 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.243
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 7.284
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.986
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.042
When I log in to a new session 11.025
And all notifications have disappeared 9.851
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.787
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000