Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_fix-bad-comments 2 01 Jul 2026, 17:53

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 21:31.291 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.239
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 1:18.527
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.573
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.287
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.515
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 8.673
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.800
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.746
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 8.256
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.599
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 7.076
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.076
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 7.214
And the system is very low on memory 3.482
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.526
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.338
And I free up some memory 0.828
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.379
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.119
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
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 4.979
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.037
When I disable the first tps feature 2.547
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.697
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.060
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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13.224
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 7.783
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.078
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 7.216
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.662
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.014
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.285
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 7.320
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 8.530
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.649
When I write some files expected to persist 1.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.343
# 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" 12.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.508
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 7.276
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 8.545
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.399
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.727
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.643
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.493
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.113
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
39.828
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 8.612
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.140
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.346
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 8.350
When I enable persistence 16.924
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.733
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.446
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.359
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.551
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.110
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 8.927
And the computer reboots Tails 37.716
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.277
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.173
Given I enable persistence 11.257
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.683
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:9.705
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 8.189
# 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 26.661
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.390
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.861
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.248
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 8.736
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.228
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.538
And all notifications have disappeared 7.707
When I delete the persistent partition 2.638
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.169
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 8.335
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.301
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.214
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
Tags: @product
48.837
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 8.061
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.569
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.249
And all notifications have disappeared 7.690
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.278
And all tps features are enabled 4.918
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:9.520
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 29.935
And I enable persistence 22.783
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.626
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And persistence is enabled 5.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.552
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 7.085
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.911
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.763
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.303
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.321
When I enable persistence 10.448
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.519
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 7.762
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.039
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.056
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.300
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.215
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 7.442
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.653
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.007
And all notifications have disappeared 9.711
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.478
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.277
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.299
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.789
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 8.053
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.886
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.020
When I log in to a new session 9.965
And all notifications have disappeared 8.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.545
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000