Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21472-circumvention-settings-2 14 09 Apr 2026, 02:34

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 26:51.629 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.876
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.993
And I update APT using apt 7.170
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.395
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.751
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.316
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 22.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.766
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.835
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.482
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.479
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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41.276
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.574
And the system is very low on memory 15.181
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.394
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.861
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.395
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.844
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.132
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.267
And all tps features are active 1.446
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.095
When I disable the first tps feature 2.642
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 33.703
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.310
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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12.967
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.582
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.135
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.158
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.641
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.020
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.610
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.251
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 17.288
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.189
When I write some files expected to persist 1.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.255
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.610
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.424
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 17.667
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.104
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.693
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.010
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.131
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126
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1:5.452
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.989
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.209
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.717
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.848
When I enable persistence 34.540
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.545
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.574
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.371
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.342
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 10.030
And the computer reboots Tails 36.668
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.159
Given I enable persistence 7.159
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.243
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.053
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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3:0.107
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.627
# 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 1:2.339
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.377
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.716
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
55.927
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.817
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.628
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.558
And all notifications have disappeared 8.846
When I delete the persistent partition 2.681
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.603
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.857
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.311
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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50.781
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.981
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.047
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.064
And all notifications have disappeared 8.011
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.271
And all tps features are enabled 0.972
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.956
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 43.036
And I enable persistence 27.619
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.070
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.631
And persistence is enabled 1.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.676
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.050
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.135
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.376
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.118
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.951
When I enable persistence 6.707
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.876
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.563
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.676
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.598
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.415
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.191
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.736
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.537
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.612
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 12.137
And all notifications have disappeared 8.869
# 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" 0.130
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.490
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.154
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.447
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.511
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.547
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.801
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.280
When I log in to a new session 12.297
And all notifications have disappeared 8.021
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.328
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000