Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 16 27 Aug 2026, 20:45

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 23:3.615 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:49.555
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 1:38.708
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.932
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.177
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.363
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 8.454
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.428
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.197
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.111
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 8.425
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.778
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.223
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.980
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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29.670
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.080
And the system is very low on memory 5.002
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.146
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.348
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.080
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.338
And I free up some memory 0.484
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.148
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.750
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 8.372
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 8.366
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.887
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.591
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.254
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
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12.900
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 7.691
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.025
When I enable the first tps feature 2.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.053
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 7.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.526
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.614
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 7.602
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.127
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.309
When I write some files expected to persist 1.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.155
# 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" 11.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.429
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 7.654
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.337
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.349
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.038
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 16.322
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.356
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121
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39.133
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 8.529
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.508
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.878
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.491
When I enable persistence 21.366
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.750
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.980
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.388
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.356
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.499
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.473
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 5.923
And the computer reboots Tails 32.415
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.312
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 12.040
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.139
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.174
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:10.196
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 8.487
# 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 29.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.146
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.335
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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39.192
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 8.206
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.171
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.248
And all notifications have disappeared 8.549
When I delete the persistent partition 2.697
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.033
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 8.087
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.305
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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54.085
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 8.169
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.792
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.127
And all notifications have disappeared 8.017
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.291
And all tps features are enabled 7.687
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.697
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:54.374
And I enable persistence 25.770
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.602
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.538
And persistence is enabled 8.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.795
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 7.356
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.859
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.355
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 8.351
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.002
When I enable persistence 12.835
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.856
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 8.332
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.176
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.259
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.088
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.380
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 8.237
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.729
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.359
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.405
And all notifications have disappeared 7.962
# 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" 0.108
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.110
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.154
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.269
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.563
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 8.291
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.226
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.380
When I log in to a new session 7.536
And all notifications have disappeared 8.613
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.204
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000