Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 17 28 Aug 2026, 03:15

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 23:28.060 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.911
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.871
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.404
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.838
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 8.382
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.204
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.195
And persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 22.113
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.258
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.296
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.450
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
29.984
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 8.117
And the system is very low on memory 4.734
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.613
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.387
And I free up some memory 0.418
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.364
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.467
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 8.774
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And all tps features are active 8.166
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.853
When I disable the first tps feature 2.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.646
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.290
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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13.133
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.802
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.328
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 7.828
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.485
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.834
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.995
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.871
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 8.645
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.115
When I write some files expected to persist 0.908
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.402
# 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" 11.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.836
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 20.976
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 8.634
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
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 1:2.046
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 12.205
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.356
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
39.076
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 8.304
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.063
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.230
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.424
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 8.203
When I enable persistence 21.402
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.904
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.666
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.283
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.758
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
When I cold reboot the computer 5.859
And the computer reboots Tails 33.321
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.128
Given I enable persistence 13.880
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.292
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.078
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
Tags: @product
2:9.878
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 8.811
# 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 31.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.433
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.888
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 8.213
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.337
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.585
And all notifications have disappeared 8.730
When I delete the persistent partition 2.678
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.093
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 8.428
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.282
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.115
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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58.416
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 8.599
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.394
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.222
And all notifications have disappeared 8.513
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.295
And all tps features are enabled 8.358
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:42.452
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 1:58.987
And I enable persistence 27.518
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.929
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.504
And persistence is enabled 7.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.629
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 7.642
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.343
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.913
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 8.667
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.131
When I enable persistence 13.909
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.444
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 8.087
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.901
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.320
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.163
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.094
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.556
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 8.359
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.511
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 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.204
And all notifications have disappeared 7.487
# 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" 0.136
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.096
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.254
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.235
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.044
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 8.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.138
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.334
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.682
When I log in to a new session 8.672
And all notifications have disappeared 7.860
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.101
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000