Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 105 27 Oct 2026, 20:12

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 22:47.803 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.618
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 1:16.546
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.725
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.553
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.478
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 8.253
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.588
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.914
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 8.308
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.267
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.024
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.172
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.834
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
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28.240
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.928
And the system is very low on memory 4.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.295
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.411
And I free up some memory 0.926
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.251
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.773
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 8.037
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 7.586
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.532
When I disable the first tps feature 2.387
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.578
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.726
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.639
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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13.122
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 7.882
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.876
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 7.501
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.435
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.754
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.659
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 7.571
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.423
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.287
When I write some files expected to persist 0.833
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.133
# 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" 11.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.079
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 7.443
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.054
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.263
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.248
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.404
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.036
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.102
Tags: @product
37.835
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 8.304
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.710
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.720
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 8.375
When I enable persistence 21.107
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.746
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.625
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.310
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.137
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.410
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.201
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 5.670
And the computer reboots Tails 32.862
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.191
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
Given I enable persistence 11.913
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.059
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.168
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.371
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
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2:3.155
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 8.026
# 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 26.681
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.241
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.009
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
37.218
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.270
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.853
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.708
And all notifications have disappeared 8.490
When I delete the persistent partition 2.590
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.609
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 7.951
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.226
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.216
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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53.173
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 7.921
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.987
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.923
And all notifications have disappeared 7.676
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.243
And all tps features are enabled 7.179
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.084
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 2:1.723
And I enable persistence 27.755
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.047
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And persistence is enabled 8.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.168
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 7.258
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.393
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.204
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 8.419
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.230
When I enable persistence 14.277
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.897
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 7.802
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.134
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.833
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.278
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.070
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 7.948
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.340
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.424
And all notifications have disappeared 7.025
# 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" 0.125
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.067
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.985
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.899
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 7.911
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.876
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.248
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.210
When I log in to a new session 7.814
And all notifications have disappeared 7.817
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.011
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000