Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 1 18 Aug 2026, 20:00

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 23:14.175 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:33.376
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 1:18.878
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.458
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.822
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 8.464
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.588
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.770
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 logged in 8.982
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.172
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.330
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.188
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
44.832
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 logged in 22.170
And the system is very low on memory 5.146
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.264
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.491
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.440
And I free up some memory 0.590
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.565
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.335
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 8.840
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And all tps features are active 9.420
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.960
When I disable the first tps feature 2.562
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.948
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.892
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.185
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
13.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.149
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.247
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 8.281
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 3.020
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.785
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.882
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 7.690
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.179
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.378
When I write some files expected to persist 1.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.703
# 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" 11.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.401
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 8.060
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 9.766
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.369
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.399
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 11.024
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product
40.282
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 8.549
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.400
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:52.091
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 8.678
When I enable persistence 23.889
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.600
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.430
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.253
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.176
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.569
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 5.961
And the computer reboots Tails 33.123
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.339
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.143
Given I enable persistence 12.717
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.036
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:3.952
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 7.936
# 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 26.265
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.262
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.616
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
37.604
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 7.929
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.506
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.840
And all notifications have disappeared 8.425
When I delete the persistent partition 2.601
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.258
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 7.567
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.501
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.841
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
56.493
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 7.784
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.269
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.746
And all notifications have disappeared 8.563
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.294
And all tps features are enabled 7.764
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:41.695
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 1:58.639
And I enable persistence 26.894
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.102
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.540
And persistence is enabled 8.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.608
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 7.345
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.795
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.133
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 8.524
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.385
When I enable persistence 13.066
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.065
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 8.065
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.532
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.744
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.258
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.289
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.424
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 7.827
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.621
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.106
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 8.013
And all notifications have disappeared 6.911
# 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" 0.166
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.239
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.162
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.327
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 7.916
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.036
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.248
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.637
When I log in to a new session 7.519
And all notifications have disappeared 6.795
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.137
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000