Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 12 27 Aug 2026, 03:12

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 21:58.349 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.863
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 1:16.483
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.469
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.310
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.214
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 8.226
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.814
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.194
And persistence is disabled 0.069
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.755
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 8.511
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.226
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.566
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.901
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.138
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.830
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 7.931
And the system is very low on memory 4.798
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.331
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.406
And I free up some memory 0.429
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.585
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.168
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 8.204
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.258
And all tps features are active 7.226
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.718
When I disable the first tps feature 2.443
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.598
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.265
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.050
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
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12.489
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 7.738
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 1.943
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.038
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.133
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 7.581
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.039
And I disable the first tps feature 2.520
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.770
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 7.545
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 8.253
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.717
When I write some files expected to persist 0.930
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.183
# 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" 11.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.853
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 7.523
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 8.107
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.174
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.211
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 12.079
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.099
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37.040
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 8.362
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.135
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.249
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 8.197
When I enable persistence 20.465
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.872
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.099
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.351
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.321
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.596
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.623
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
When I cold reboot the computer 5.794
And the computer reboots Tails 32.715
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.218
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
Given I enable persistence 12.074
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.134
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.243
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:5.235
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 7.822
# 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 27.733
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.392
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.336
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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36.696
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 7.880
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.511
Then persistence is disabled 0.063
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.105
And all notifications have disappeared 8.241
When I delete the persistent partition 2.646
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.908
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 7.949
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.436
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.301
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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54.053
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 7.889
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.853
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.274
And all notifications have disappeared 8.450
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 7.430
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.969
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 1:56.799
And I enable persistence 24.418
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.935
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.471
And persistence is enabled 7.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.106
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 7.393
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.248
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.000
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 7.979
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.417
When I enable persistence 11.931
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.439
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 7.887
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.270
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.477
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.157
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.222
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.001
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 7.888
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.784
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.092
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 8.439
And all notifications have disappeared 7.425
# 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" 0.095
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.070
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.187
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.049
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.568
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 7.671
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.488
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.244
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.354
When I log in to a new session 7.509
And all notifications have disappeared 7.239
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.087
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000