Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 118 03 Nov 2026, 03:36

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 24:26.556 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.303
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 1:17.965
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.869
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.649
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.711
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 8.647
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.096
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.207
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.544
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 8.723
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.853
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.496
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.851
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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30.613
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 9.011
And the system is very low on memory 4.470
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.716
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.099
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.414
And I free up some memory 0.452
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.229
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.689
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 enabled and logged in 8.445
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 7.658
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.694
When I disable the first tps feature 2.523
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.186
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.692
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.282
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 8.010
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.528
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 7.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.530
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.938
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.958
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 7.664
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 13.170
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.379
When I write some files expected to persist 1.004
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.356
# 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" 11.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.643
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 8.083
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 8.489
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.301
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.758
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 12.158
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.436
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.083
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38.232
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.629
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 11.377
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.954
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 8.563
When I enable persistence 22.235
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.875
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.815
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.218
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.550
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.494
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 5.862
And the computer reboots Tails 34.326
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
Given I enable persistence 14.063
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.336
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.340
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
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2:23.849
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 21.186
# 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 30.405
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.454
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.905
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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38.950
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 8.768
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.383
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.604
And all notifications have disappeared 8.250
When I delete the persistent partition 2.637
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.918
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 8.423
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.277
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.948
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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57.147
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 8.811
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.814
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.532
And all notifications have disappeared 8.110
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.268
And all tps features are enabled 7.939
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:17.723
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 2:31.092
And I enable persistence 29.100
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.656
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.509
And persistence is enabled 9.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.784
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 7.468
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.772
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.697
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 8.525
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.031
When I enable persistence 15.453
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.034
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.173
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 corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.305
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.869
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.247
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.204
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.892
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 8.110
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.779
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.053
And all notifications have disappeared 7.950
# 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" 0.205
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.072
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.180
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.149
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.956
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 8.320
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.103
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.507
When I log in to a new session 7.255
And all notifications have disappeared 8.307
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.107
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000