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test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 134 10 Nov 2026, 03:24

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 23:51.209 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.154
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 1:19.966
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.819
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.614
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.609
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 9.037
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.809
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.680
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 9.104
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.910
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 5.631
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.287
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.936
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 8.068
And the system is very low on memory 4.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.649
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 0.496
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.990
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.526
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 8.892
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.397
And all tps features are active 9.791
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.869
When I disable the first tps feature 2.645
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.330
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.629
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.736
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
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13.651
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 8.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.412
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.386
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 7.820
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.512
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.880
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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47.160
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 7.784
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.695
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.914
When I write some files expected to persist 1.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.350
# 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" 12.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.179
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 7.678
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 9.693
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.198
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.728
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.142
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.351
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
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37.512
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.672
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 12.605
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.545
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 8.536
When I enable persistence 22.377
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.706
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.172
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.233
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.164
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.043
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
When I cold reboot the computer 5.926
And the computer reboots Tails 34.260
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.272
Given I enable persistence 12.894
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.131
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.613
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:13.494
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 8.375
# 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 33.407
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.222
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.353
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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37.411
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 8.326
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.752
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.317
And all notifications have disappeared 7.853
When I delete the persistent partition 2.760
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.518
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 8.239
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.197
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.813
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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55.728
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 8.520
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.084
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.202
And all notifications have disappeared 7.660
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.206
And all tps features are enabled 8.311
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.282
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 1:55.879
And I enable persistence 28.319
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.551
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.573
And persistence is enabled 8.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.196
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 7.745
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.860
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.259
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 8.135
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.819
When I enable persistence 12.509
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.690
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 8.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.011
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.727
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.113
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.228
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.956
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 8.314
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.773
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 8.644
And all notifications have disappeared 7.127
# 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" 0.165
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.080
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.115
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.390
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.329
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 8.013
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.180
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.385
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.321
When I log in to a new session 8.605
And all notifications have disappeared 7.630
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.175
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000