Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21548-flatpak-install 8 18 May 2026, 14:24

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 20:40.876 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.672
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.148
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.364
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.344
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.673
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 8.600
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.520
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.368
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.772
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.795
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.798
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
29.921
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.325
And the system is very low on memory 3.645
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.198
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.576
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 1.062
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.525
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.681
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 8.490
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And all tps features are active 1.366
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.417
When I disable the first tps feature 3.116
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.238
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.003
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.596
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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13.217
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.621
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.642
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.009
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 7.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.481
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.860
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.319
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 7.163
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 13.193
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.159
When I write some files expected to persist 1.385
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.864
# 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" 12.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.235
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 7.707
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.592
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.556
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.220
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.365
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
Tags: @product
42.979
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.032
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.988
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.063
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.170
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:51.475
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.646
When I enable persistence 12.992
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.832
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.541
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.385
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.542
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.645
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 10.380
And the computer reboots Tails 37.300
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
Given I enable persistence 8.450
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.157
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:5.359
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 8.768
# 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 24.919
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.544
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.075
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.020
Tags: @product
38.023
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 7.689
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.601
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.649
And all notifications have disappeared 7.885
When I delete the persistent partition 2.746
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:22.434
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 7.405
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.675
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.030
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.037
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40.715
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 7.283
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.162
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.446
And all notifications have disappeared 8.094
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.353
And all tps features are enabled 1.049
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:3.820
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 29.803
And I enable persistence 20.850
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.017
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.546
And persistence is enabled 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.024
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 6.978
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.733
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.219
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 8.210
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.463
When I enable persistence 7.446
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.312
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 7.560
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.103
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.562
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.376
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.141
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.646
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.291
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.352
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I log in to a new session 12.829
And all notifications have disappeared 9.161
# 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" 0.168
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.083
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.316
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.558
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.634
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.870
When I log in to a new session 11.061
And all notifications have disappeared 8.145
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000