Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 19 30 Aug 2026, 03:19

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 22:21.264 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.249
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 1:15.492
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.833
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.216
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.057
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 8.466
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.564
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.177
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.085
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 21.962
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.530
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.992
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.938
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.111
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 7.858
And the system is very low on memory 4.865
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.160
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.296
And I free up some memory 0.467
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.110
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.249
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 enabled and logged in 8.170
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And all tps features are active 7.623
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.568
When I disable the first tps feature 2.444
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.188
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.180
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.083
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13.087
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 7.912
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.395
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.039
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.125
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 7.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I disable the first tps feature 2.450
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.894
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.566
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 7.406
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.312
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.567
When I write some files expected to persist 0.860
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.151
# 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" 11.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.927
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 7.456
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 9.954
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.874
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.624
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.363
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.086
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37.191
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 8.402
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.855
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.065
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 8.638
When I enable persistence 21.388
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.769
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.709
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.343
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.326
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.542
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.090
When I cold reboot the computer 5.697
And the computer reboots Tails 32.622
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.292
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
Given I enable persistence 12.315
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.135
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.233
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.531
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 7.994
# 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 27.229
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.434
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.988
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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36.520
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 7.985
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.562
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.647
And all notifications have disappeared 7.854
When I delete the persistent partition 2.167
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.873
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 8.002
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.337
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.285
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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55.945
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 7.988
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.766
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.366
And all notifications have disappeared 8.105
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.203
And all tps features are enabled 7.453
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.101
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 1:59.624
And I enable persistence 25.855
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.919
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.639
And persistence is enabled 8.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.913
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.382
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.098
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.012
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 8.201
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.119
When I enable persistence 13.129
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.029
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 8.037
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.499
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.250
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.247
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.259
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.161
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 7.898
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.264
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 7.133
And all notifications have disappeared 6.882
# 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" 0.296
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.182
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.128
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.456
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 7.928
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.994
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.225
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.496
When I log in to a new session 7.234
And all notifications have disappeared 6.453
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.083
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000