Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 11 26 Aug 2026, 03:17

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 22:21.662 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.629
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.808
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.966
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.189
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.955
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 8.238
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.285
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.181
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.972
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 8.446
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.632
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.256
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.011
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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28.643
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 7.744
And the system is very low on memory 4.653
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.400
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.160
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 0.490
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.573
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.841
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 8.115
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And all tps features are active 7.738
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.476
When I disable the first tps feature 2.418
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.514
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.670
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.357
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
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13.047
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 7.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.415
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.396
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.982
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 7.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.501
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.850
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.102
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 7.420
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 9.508
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.543
When I write some files expected to persist 0.974
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.597
# 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" 11.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.264
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 7.556
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 8.399
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.150
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.241
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.214
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.357
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.083
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37.947
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.143
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.343
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.112
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 8.219
When I enable persistence 21.031
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.230
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.050
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.280
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.445
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.500
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 5.806
And the computer reboots Tails 32.389
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.366
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 12.678
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.138
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.140
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:7.922
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 8.063
# 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 29.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.103
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.846
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.080
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37.424
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 8.000
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.518
Then persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.822
And all notifications have disappeared 8.223
When I delete the persistent partition 2.549
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.444
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 7.751
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.245
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.200
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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53.340
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 7.919
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.625
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.410
And all notifications have disappeared 8.324
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 7.207
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.561
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 2:6.954
And I enable persistence 26.132
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.914
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.445
And persistence is enabled 7.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.220
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 7.471
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.278
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.976
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.664
When I enable persistence 12.561
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.616
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 10.186
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.737
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.113
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.213
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.257
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 7.660
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.126
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 7.917
And all notifications have disappeared 8.752
# 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" 0.141
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.180
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.113
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.211
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 7.942
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.798
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.237
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.191
When I log in to a new session 7.885
And all notifications have disappeared 6.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.129
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000