Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_19913-remove-useless-udevadm-settle 1 10 Aug 2026, 16:23

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 23:8.687 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.215
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:29.579
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.631
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.309
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.224
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 8.618
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.312
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.215
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.844
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 8.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.809
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.352
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.087
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 7.910
And the system is very low on memory 4.966
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.282
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.415
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.420
And I free up some memory 0.453
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.409
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.725
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.550
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And all tps features are active 7.671
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.611
When I disable the first tps feature 2.581
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.610
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.309
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.804
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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13.124
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 7.853
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.028
When I enable the first tps feature 2.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.292
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 7.710
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.486
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.897
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.496
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.717
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.854
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.037
When I write some files expected to persist 1.232
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.360
# 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" 11.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.866
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.828
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.707
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.597
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.757
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.335
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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38.397
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.524
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.819
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.862
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 8.390
When I enable persistence 21.815
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.648
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.605
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.303
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.744
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.999
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
When I cold reboot the computer 5.875
And the computer reboots Tails 33.455
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.205
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
Given I enable persistence 13.176
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.052
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.206
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.382
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:9.657
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 8.256
# 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 28.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.483
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.659
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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39.388
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 8.786
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.627
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.525
And all notifications have disappeared 8.372
When I delete the persistent partition 2.737
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.847
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 8.324
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.300
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.979
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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56.550
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 8.270
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.006
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.507
And all notifications have disappeared 8.463
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.298
And all tps features are enabled 8.131
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.358
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 2:1.163
And I enable persistence 26.226
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.959
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.516
And persistence is enabled 8.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.296
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 7.647
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.164
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.017
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 8.079
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.040
When I enable persistence 12.799
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.249
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 7.880
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.443
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.091
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.323
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.256
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.094
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.035
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.513
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.152
And all notifications have disappeared 8.393
# 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" 0.225
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.153
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.113
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.091
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 8.197
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.421
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.579
When I log in to a new session 7.865
And all notifications have disappeared 7.379
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.200
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000