Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21761-reduce-chutney-memory-usage 1 11 Sep 2026, 17:03

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 21:58.116 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.993
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 1:14.873
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.197
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.120
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 8.263
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.427
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.192
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.329
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 8.439
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.752
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.240
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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27.848
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 7.909
And the system is very low on memory 3.743
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.727
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.078
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.319
And I free up some memory 0.463
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.398
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.261
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 8.243
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
And all tps features are active 7.674
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.599
When I disable the first tps feature 2.436
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.673
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.691
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.446
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.184
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 enabled and logged in 7.870
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.173
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 7.615
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.489
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.559
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 7.589
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 9.113
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.433
When I write some files expected to persist 0.890
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.176
# 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" 11.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.981
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 7.473
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 8.044
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 5.210
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.054
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.430
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.421
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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35.743
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.525
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.223
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 13.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.737
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 8.457
When I enable persistence 20.664
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.882
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.613
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.472
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.346
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.486
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.151
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 5.943
And the computer reboots Tails 31.389
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.180
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
Given I enable persistence 11.952
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.062
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.279
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.374
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:59.144
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 8.119
# 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 25.937
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.123
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.661
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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37.473
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 8.043
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.438
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.605
And all notifications have disappeared 8.401
When I delete the persistent partition 2.660
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.635
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 7.841
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.257
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.292
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
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54.035
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 7.936
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.038
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.890
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.843
And all notifications have disappeared 8.299
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 7.334
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:32.182
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 1:52.369
And I enable persistence 24.658
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.986
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.465
And persistence is enabled 7.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.209
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 7.263
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.468
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.058
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 8.197
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.286
When I enable persistence 12.297
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.035
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.044
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 21.242
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.669
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.386
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.243
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.083
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.205
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 7.912
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.209
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.107
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.355
And all notifications have disappeared 7.222
# 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" 0.128
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.152
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.985
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.193
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 7.855
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.631
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.242
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.220
When I log in to a new session 8.348
And all notifications have disappeared 6.910
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 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000