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test_Tails_ISO_21769-gather-chutney-configure-backtrace 1 08 Sep 2026, 11:57

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 24:22.640 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.993
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 1:20.160
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.737
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.253
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.011
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 9.627
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.592
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.950
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 logged in 9.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.377
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 5.621
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.943
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.203
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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43.218
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 logged in 21.843
And the system is very low on memory 4.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.645
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.146
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.495
And I free up some memory 0.529
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.313
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 21.903
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And all tps features are active 8.979
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.960
When I disable the first tps feature 2.600
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.237
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.515
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.759
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
13.916
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 8.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.126
When I disable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.728
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 enabled and logged in 7.938
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.583
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.996
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.910
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 7.928
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 12.941
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.451
When I write some files expected to persist 1.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.613
# 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" 11.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.793
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 8.413
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 9.208
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.446
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.251
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.589
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.433
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.150
Tags: @product
41.981
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.222
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.976
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.284
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 9.265
When I enable persistence 22.576
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.360
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.303
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.391
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.491
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.758
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 6.303
And the computer reboots Tails 35.035
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.590
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.204
Given I enable persistence 15.487
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.349
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.543
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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2:11.608
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.900
# 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 27.676
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.470
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.723
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
40.341
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 8.354
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.637
Then persistence is disabled 0.158
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.025
And all notifications have disappeared 9.111
When I delete the persistent partition 2.778
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.243
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 8.482
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.306
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.174
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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1:0.405
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 8.693
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.615
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.908
And all notifications have disappeared 8.828
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.272
And all tps features are enabled 9.044
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.028
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 2:0.623
And I enable persistence 28.366
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.629
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.634
And persistence is enabled 8.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.512
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 7.694
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.262
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.662
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 8.949
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.284
When I enable persistence 13.971
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.006
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 8.318
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.740
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.887
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.170
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.542
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 9.272
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.413
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 8.537
And all notifications have disappeared 7.319
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.108
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.282
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.191
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.186
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 8.512
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.721
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.242
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.252
When I log in to a new session 9.084
And all notifications have disappeared 6.940
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.303
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000