Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20036-check-po-msgfmt-ignore-irrelevant-directories 1 25 Jul 2026, 17:27

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 22:0.143 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.662
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 1:19.696
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.872
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.259
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.621
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 8.240
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.182
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.943
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 8.566
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.029
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.929
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.233
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.194
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 7.224
And the system is very low on memory 4.610
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.223
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.318
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.130
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.431
And I free up some memory 0.945
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.260
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.821
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 8.393
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 5.031
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.083
When I disable the first tps feature 2.589
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.824
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.497
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.012
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
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12.593
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 7.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.084
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.869
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 7.296
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.507
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.886
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.159
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 7.155
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.630
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.349
When I write some files expected to persist 1.321
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.430
# 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" 12.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.272
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 7.357
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 13.417
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.431
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.765
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
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42.194
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.426
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.843
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.773
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 8.200
When I enable persistence 19.328
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.854
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.537
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.407
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.497
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.577
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
When I cold reboot the computer 6.344
And the computer reboots Tails 37.704
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.285
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
Given I enable persistence 11.242
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.233
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.659
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:14.080
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 8.206
# 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 31.447
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.498
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.496
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
40.480
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 7.955
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.799
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.293
And all notifications have disappeared 8.136
When I delete the persistent partition 2.757
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.271
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 7.875
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.379
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.677
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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50.457
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 7.466
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.074
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.428
And all notifications have disappeared 7.929
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.345
And all tps features are enabled 5.081
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.123
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.355
And I enable persistence 26.625
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.998
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 5.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.164
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 6.942
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.746
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.237
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 8.235
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.514
When I enable persistence 11.194
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.757
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 7.315
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.876
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.949
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.468
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.173
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 7.480
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.438
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.073
And all notifications have disappeared 9.844
# 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" 0.164
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.425
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.224
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.363
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.291
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 7.398
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.919
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.754
When I log in to a new session 10.152
And all notifications have disappeared 9.424
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.396
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000