Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_make-cloner-findable-via-backup-keyword 1 21 Oct 2026, 13:56

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 23:16.681 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.161
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 1:19.431
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.363
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.544
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.683
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 8.264
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.875
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.198
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.723
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 8.729
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.833
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.279
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.667
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 8.202
And the system is very low on memory 3.780
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.227
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.195
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.069
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.375
And I free up some memory 0.447
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.290
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.951
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 8.449
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And all tps features are active 8.215
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.851
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.452
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.553
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.817
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.284
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 7.940
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.039
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.236
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 7.666
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.463
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.920
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.024
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 7.861
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 11.713
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.744
When I write some files expected to persist 0.963
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.299
# 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" 11.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.973
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 7.702
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.651
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.224
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.596
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.957
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.108
Tags: @product
38.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.395
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.125
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.427
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 8.602
When I enable persistence 21.772
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.018
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.656
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.412
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.335
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.460
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.162
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.104
When I cold reboot the computer 6.067
And the computer reboots Tails 33.841
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.190
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.149
Given I enable persistence 13.429
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.157
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.870
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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2:10.796
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 8.272
# 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 32.436
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.360
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.691
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.485
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 8.240
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.087
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.841
And all notifications have disappeared 8.343
When I delete the persistent partition 2.674
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.114
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 7.885
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.876
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.112
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
54.894
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 8.176
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.794
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.848
And all notifications have disappeared 7.329
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 7.128
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.786
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:54.222
And I enable persistence 26.064
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.902
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.503
And persistence is enabled 8.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.830
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 7.540
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.821
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.305
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 8.347
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.600
When I enable persistence 13.088
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.196
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 8.275
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.738
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.797
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.152
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.131
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.160
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 8.039
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.871
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.006
And all notifications have disappeared 7.364
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.176
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.179
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.178
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 8.188
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.991
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.710
When I log in to a new session 7.730
And all notifications have disappeared 7.074
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.106
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000