Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 112 30 Oct 2026, 03:50

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 22:53.935 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.668
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 1:17.560
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.925
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.199
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.797
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.937
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.051
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 8.579
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.380
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.793
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.317
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.186
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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29.313
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 8.123
And the system is very low on memory 4.017
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.267
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.454
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.516
And I free up some memory 0.437
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.360
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.272
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 enabled and logged in 8.143
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
And all tps features are active 7.960
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.858
When I disable the first tps feature 2.415
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.399
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.573
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.671
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 enabled and logged in 8.339
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.432
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 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.177
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 7.579
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.117
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 2.498
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.854
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.133
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 enabled and logged in 7.638
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 12.792
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.924
When I write some files expected to persist 0.946
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.233
# 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" 11.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.130
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 enabled and logged in 7.555
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 9.203
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.173
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.592
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 11.884
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.332
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.094
Tags: @product
38.834
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 8.212
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.925
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.695
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.172
When I enable persistence 22.626
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.084
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.293
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.277
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.519
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.106
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.020
And the computer reboots Tails 33.124
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 15.719
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
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 7.229
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:13.406
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 8.980
# 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 27.236
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.484
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.135
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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38.148
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 8.732
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.610
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.594
And all notifications have disappeared 8.246
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.919
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 8.218
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.139
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.084
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57.753
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 8.469
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.771
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.084
And all notifications have disappeared 8.380
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.229
And all tps features are enabled 8.475
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:40.159
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 1:58.814
And I enable persistence 25.603
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.782
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.507
And persistence is enabled 7.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.892
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 7.394
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.023
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.359
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 8.057
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.102
When I enable persistence 12.948
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.941
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 8.026
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.107
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.786
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.130
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.811
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 8.030
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.539
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.118
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.085
And all notifications have disappeared 8.571
# 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" 0.117
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.068
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.134
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.164
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.408
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 8.138
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.393
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.304
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.574
When I log in to a new session 7.610
And all notifications have disappeared 8.325
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.075
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000