Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21618-remove-tcpdump 2 26 May 2026, 16:52

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 21:40.949 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.891
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.022
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.935
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.659
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.289
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.024
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.301
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.394
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.686
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.325
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.790
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.665
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.013
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31.789
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.548
And the system is very low on memory 4.259
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.236
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.287
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.384
And I free up some memory 0.882
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.912
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.543
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
And all tps features are active 1.285
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.945
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.354
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.795
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.242
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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13.333
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.797
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.531
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.642
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I disable the first tps feature 2.636
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.999
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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40.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.494
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.398
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.181
When I write some files expected to persist 1.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.520
# 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" 12.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:47.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.617
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.984
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.465
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.845
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.306
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.485
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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44.190
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.233
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 16.320
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:57.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.461
When I enable persistence 14.802
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.221
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.043
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.377
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.317
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.608
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.490
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
When I cold reboot the computer 10.765
And the computer reboots Tails 37.999
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
Given I enable persistence 8.673
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.277
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.342
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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2:17.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.820
# 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 29.348
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.919
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.845
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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41.812
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.790
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.436
Then persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.544
And all notifications have disappeared 8.690
When I delete the persistent partition 2.830
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:25.829
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.818
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.737
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.954
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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43.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.733
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.074
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.346
And all notifications have disappeared 7.973
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.339
And all tps features are enabled 1.156
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:10.358
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 34.076
And I enable persistence 22.091
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.703
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.648
And persistence is enabled 1.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.236
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
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 7.451
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.180
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.354
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.719
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.112
When I enable persistence 7.209
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.883
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.312
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.112
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.620
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.854
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.872
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 0.048
When I log in to a new session 11.447
And all notifications have disappeared 10.256
# 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" 0.261
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.528
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.226
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.362
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.028
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.389
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.064
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.839
When I log in to a new session 11.249
And all notifications have disappeared 8.568
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.410
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000