Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 104 27 Oct 2026, 18:54

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 23:44.779 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:58.283
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 1:17.528
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.027
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.715
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.863
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 8.515
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.291
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.209
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.705
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 22.512
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.253
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.166
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.039
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.222
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
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43.329
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 21.685
And the system is very low on memory 4.850
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.234
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.408
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.418
And I free up some memory 0.456
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.104
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.127
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 8.325
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And all tps features are active 9.503
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.740
When I disable the first tps feature 2.415
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.769
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.383
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.056
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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13.338
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 8.090
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.160
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 7.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.572
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.886
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.448
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 7.581
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 13.171
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.578
When I write some files expected to persist 1.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.590
# 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" 11.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.518
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 7.704
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 8.504
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.118
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.423
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.085
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.046
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.083
Tags: @product
38.163
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 8.408
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.111
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.665
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.551
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 8.843
When I enable persistence 21.566
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.645
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.528
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.202
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.150
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.481
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.528
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
When I cold reboot the computer 6.119
And the computer reboots Tails 32.144
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.287
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.105
Given I enable persistence 13.247
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.062
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.134
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.273
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:14.453
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 8.067
# 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 35.438
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.201
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.639
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
37.696
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 8.422
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.320
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.453
And all notifications have disappeared 8.507
When I delete the persistent partition 2.649
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.232
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 8.065
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.385
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.539
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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56.661
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 8.770
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.992
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.490
And all notifications have disappeared 8.325
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.197
And all tps features are enabled 8.152
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:39.746
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:58.600
And I enable persistence 25.797
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.390
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.620
And persistence is enabled 7.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.625
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 7.453
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.642
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.228
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.609
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.844
When I enable persistence 12.710
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.040
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 8.118
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.714
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.825
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.301
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.222
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.251
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 7.912
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.498
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.525
And all notifications have disappeared 8.544
# 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" 0.135
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.285
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.128
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.988
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.352
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 8.105
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.615
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.236
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.080
When I log in to a new session 8.054
And all notifications have disappeared 8.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.047
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000