Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21548-flatpak-install 4 14 May 2026, 14:25

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 21:14.917 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.414
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.468
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.751
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.286
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.725
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 8.727
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.404
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.912
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 8.805
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.197
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.039
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.099
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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29.259
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.610
And the system is very low on memory 3.583
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.075
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.369
And I free up some memory 0.770
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.524
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:33.752
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 8.714
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 1.211
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.130
When I disable the first tps feature 2.722
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.339
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.885
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.214
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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13.321
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 7.893
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.551
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.147
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 7.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.722
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.894
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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44.952
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 7.666
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 13.005
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.234
When I write some files expected to persist 1.427
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.591
# 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" 12.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.028
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.421
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.130
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.452
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.263
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.853
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.424
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.102
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.055
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42.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.261
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.586
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:51.409
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 8.908
When I enable persistence 14.106
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.059
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.081
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.415
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" 4.595
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.376
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.229
When I cold reboot the computer 8.882
And the computer reboots Tails 37.033
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.235
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
Given I enable persistence 7.492
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.252
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.007
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:16.024
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 8.743
# 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 29.221
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.661
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.251
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
40.332
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 8.566
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.996
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.460
And all notifications have disappeared 8.053
When I delete the persistent partition 2.820
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:25.882
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 7.929
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.806
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.811
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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44.058
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 8.998
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.467
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.263
And all notifications have disappeared 7.787
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.859
And all tps features are enabled 1.177
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.256
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 31.023
And I enable persistence 21.231
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.641
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.598
And persistence is enabled 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.967
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 7.154
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.233
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.672
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 8.698
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.990
When I enable persistence 6.828
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.095
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.300
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 8.321
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.814
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.922
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.450
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.181
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.567
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 7.940
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.025
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 12.092
And all notifications have disappeared 9.653
# 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 0.438
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.186
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.314
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.506
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 8.243
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.870
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.823
When I log in to a new session 12.193
And all notifications have disappeared 8.645
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000