Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 114 01 Nov 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 23:35.043 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:58.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.285
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.493
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.532
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.708
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 8.486
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.881
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.234
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.845
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 22.013
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.180
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.904
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.084
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.149
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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30.113
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 8.354
And the system is very low on memory 4.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.273
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.468
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.076
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.438
And I free up some memory 0.441
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.719
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.509
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 8.207
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
And all tps features are active 8.783
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.718
When I disable the first tps feature 2.460
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.405
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.828
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.136
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 7.907
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.022
When I enable the first tps feature 2.403
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.039
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.423
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 7.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.578
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.925
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.284
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 7.524
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.877
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.251
When I write some files expected to persist 0.984
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.331
# 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" 11.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.633
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 7.389
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 10.661
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.246
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.377
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.090
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.414
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.063
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37.187
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.696
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.117
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.733
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 9.848
When I enable persistence 22.022
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.821
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.816
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.220
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.139
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.556
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.740
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
When I cold reboot the computer 6.035
And the computer reboots Tails 33.499
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
Given I enable persistence 13.056
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.866
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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2:12.935
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 enabled and logged in 8.458
# 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 31.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.516
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.165
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
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36.001
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 8.178
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.487
Then persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.531
And all notifications have disappeared 7.036
When I delete the persistent partition 2.643
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.997
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 8.216
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.279
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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55.940
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.282
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.310
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.792
And all notifications have disappeared 7.826
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.257
And all tps features are enabled 7.832
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.689
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 1:54.381
And I enable persistence 26.840
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.036
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.448
And persistence is enabled 7.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.906
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 7.267
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.129
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.134
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 8.376
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.030
When I enable persistence 13.689
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.037
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 8.170
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.442
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.822
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.107
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.285
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.237
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.900
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 7.703
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.307
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.771
And all notifications have disappeared 9.227
# 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" 0.172
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.284
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.165
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.006
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.690
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 7.910
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.799
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.301
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.574
When I log in to a new session 8.935
And all notifications have disappeared 7.831
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.358
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000