Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_make-cloner-findable-via-backup-keyword 5 25 Oct 2026, 02:42

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 23:3.896 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.069
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 1:17.045
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.778
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.557
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.664
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 8.351
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.253
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.218
And persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.740
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 8.646
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.263
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.499
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.507
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.520
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 7.916
And the system is very low on memory 4.330
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.517
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.425
And I free up some memory 0.431
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.575
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.441
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 8.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 8.048
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.795
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.549
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.070
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 7.732
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.039
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.522
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 7.917
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.558
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.328
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 7.543
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 11.518
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.648
When I write some files expected to persist 0.922
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.610
# 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" 11.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.054
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 7.696
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 9.904
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.266
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.219
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.206
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
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38.005
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.555
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.543
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.254
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 8.464
When I enable persistence 21.538
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.130
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.068
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.253
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.454
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.642
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
When I cold reboot the computer 5.910
And the computer reboots Tails 32.748
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.293
Given I enable persistence 13.025
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.185
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.532
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:13.075
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 8.336
# 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 29.300
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.214
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.350
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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38.278
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 8.166
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.132
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.434
And all notifications have disappeared 8.454
When I delete the persistent partition 2.650
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.110
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 8.438
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.027
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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53.304
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 7.960
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.704
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.673
And all notifications have disappeared 7.741
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.274
And all tps features are enabled 7.338
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.392
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 1:53.507
And I enable persistence 26.252
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.071
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.456
And persistence is enabled 8.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.094
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 7.269
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.369
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.790
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 8.580
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.377
When I enable persistence 12.466
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.451
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 8.114
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.491
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.691
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.203
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.092
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.540
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 7.910
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.037
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.943
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 7.377
And all notifications have disappeared 7.759
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.072
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.079
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.184
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 7.985
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.581
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.245
When I try to enable persistence 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.807
When I log in to a new session 7.104
And all notifications have disappeared 8.350
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.055
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000