Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21548-flatpak-install 5 15 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 20:58.832 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.034
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.863
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.840
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.293
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.758
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 9.102
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.646
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:41.206
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.718
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.114
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.576
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.002
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.223
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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29.787
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.587
And the system is very low on memory 3.806
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.220
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.932
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.365
And I free up some memory 0.854
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.873
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:32.576
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 8.411
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And all tps features are active 1.323
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.909
When I disable the first tps feature 3.043
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.427
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.751
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.016
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13.158
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.531
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.039
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.284
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 7.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.596
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.024
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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42.666
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 7.398
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 14.059
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.285
When I write some files expected to persist 1.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.116
# 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" 12.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.486
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 7.211
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.240
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.042
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.658
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.569
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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40.209
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.432
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.505
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:53.651
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 8.678
When I enable persistence 13.809
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.994
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.751
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.527
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.511
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 10.442
And the computer reboots Tails 37.730
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.271
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 7.220
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.205
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.406
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
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2:9.382
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 8.419
# 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 29.646
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.914
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.746
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
38.694
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 8.258
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.778
Then persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.429
And all notifications have disappeared 7.867
When I delete the persistent partition 2.782
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:25.620
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 8.213
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.528
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.536
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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42.650
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 7.791
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.951
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.248
And all notifications have disappeared 7.891
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.285
And all tps features are enabled 1.073
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.032
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 31.429
And I enable persistence 20.032
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.341
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.601
And persistence is enabled 1.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.591
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 7.060
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.932
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.292
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 8.445
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.703
When I enable persistence 7.263
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.904
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 8.027
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.181
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.477
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.481
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.950
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 7.524
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.306
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.304
And all notifications have disappeared 9.361
# 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" 0.186
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.390
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.180
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.395
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.892
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 8.349
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.814
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.385
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.394
When I log in to a new session 11.576
And all notifications have disappeared 8.563
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.797
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000