Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 110 29 Oct 2026, 03:40

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 23:46.879 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.259
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.155
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.488
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.649
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.285
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 8.468
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.200
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.824
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 8.858
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.138
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.562
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.940
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 8.110
And the system is very low on memory 4.423
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.302
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.364
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.342
And I free up some memory 0.455
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.777
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.795
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 8.395
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 8.262
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.834
When I disable the first tps feature 2.509
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.509
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.334
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.557
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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13.063
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 7.677
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.573
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.394
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.126
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 7.684
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.470
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.799
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.451
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 7.727
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.980
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.920
When I write some files expected to persist 0.944
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.190
# 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" 11.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.258
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 7.619
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 9.587
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.218
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.880
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.211
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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40.141
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.294
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.827
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.499
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 8.592
When I enable persistence 21.589
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.918
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.490
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.432
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.311
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.457
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.504
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 5.795
And the computer reboots Tails 33.384
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
Given I enable persistence 13.090
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.719
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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2:21.483
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 21.396
# 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 27.755
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 1:3.910
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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36.213
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 8.120
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.299
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.314
And all notifications have disappeared 7.560
When I delete the persistent partition 2.554
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.812
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 7.862
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.403
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.288
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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56.440
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 8.121
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.035
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.017
And all notifications have disappeared 8.359
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.222
And all tps features are enabled 8.127
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.677
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 2:9.673
And I enable persistence 25.584
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.974
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.504
And persistence is enabled 8.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.470
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.612
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.297
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.258
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 8.206
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.108
When I enable persistence 12.969
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.457
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.155
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.256
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.620
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.098
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.198
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.091
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.163
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 7.871
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.625
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.083
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 7.812
And all notifications have disappeared 7.004
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.095
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.179
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.253
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 21.440
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.581
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.985
When I log in to a new session 7.209
And all notifications have disappeared 7.538
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.105
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000