Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 130 07 Nov 2026, 03:34

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 24:2.836 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.171
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 1:19.976
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.422
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.651
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.657
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 21.790
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.274
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.520
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 logged in 8.604
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.003
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.582
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.441
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 7.938
And the system is very low on memory 4.022
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.255
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.421
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.377
And I free up some memory 0.524
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.757
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.177
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 21.176
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And all tps features are active 8.237
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.762
When I disable the first tps feature 2.525
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.829
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.921
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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13.485
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 8.184
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.400
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 7.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.481
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.964
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.014
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 7.689
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 11.754
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.280
When I write some files expected to persist 1.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.197
# 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" 11.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.170
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 7.792
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.788
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.267
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.519
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 12.113
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.325
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
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38.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.545
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.125
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.178
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.036
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 8.923
When I enable persistence 22.335
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.827
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.470
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
# 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 21.635
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 5.950
And the computer reboots Tails 33.414
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 14.297
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.284
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.867
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:12.784
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.412
# 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 31.538
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.416
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.109
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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36.979
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 8.111
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.269
Then persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.852
And all notifications have disappeared 7.862
When I delete the persistent partition 2.557
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.618
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 7.883
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.346
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.141
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
59.595
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 8.111
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.616
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.169
And all notifications have disappeared 7.996
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.211
And all tps features are enabled 9.425
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.929
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 2:6.839
And I enable persistence 25.964
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.788
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.524
And persistence is enabled 7.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.673
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 7.558
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.641
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.442
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 7.967
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.186
When I enable persistence 13.157
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.458
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 7.856
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.841
When I try to enable persistence 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.773
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.086
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.236
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.085
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.204
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 8.028
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.257
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I log in to a new session 7.668
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" 0.160
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.074
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.195
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.211
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.480
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 7.690
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.629
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.436
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.451
When I log in to a new session 7.852
And all notifications have disappeared 7.260
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.076
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000