Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 20 31 Aug 2026, 03:14

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 22:19.200 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.862
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 1:15.638
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.322
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.217
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.396
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 8.305
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.859
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.215
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.374
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 21.686
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.576
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.943
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.620
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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30.211
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 8.121
And the system is very low on memory 5.862
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.973
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.363
And I free up some memory 0.724
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.866
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.368
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 7.984
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And all tps features are active 7.528
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.406
When I disable the first tps feature 2.421
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.373
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.332
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.608
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.198
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 7.959
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.506
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 7.556
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.468
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.320
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.394
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 7.769
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.541
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.915
When I write some files expected to persist 1.006
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.206
# 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" 10.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.669
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 7.813
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 7.959
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.097
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.239
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.678
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.356
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.312
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
36.599
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 8.308
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 10.897
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.984
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 8.425
When I enable persistence 22.113
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.934
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.314
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.421
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.123
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 5.907
And the computer reboots Tails 32.553
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.335
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 11.956
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.057
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 6.607
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:3.019
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 8.093
# 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 27.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.001
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.565
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 8.330
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.149
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.233
And all notifications have disappeared 7.969
When I delete the persistent partition 2.544
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.733
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 8.009
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.187
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.280
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
55.212
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 8.220
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.591
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.572
And all notifications have disappeared 8.141
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.232
And all tps features are enabled 7.758
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.551
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 1:57.434
And I enable persistence 26.154
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.019
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.509
And persistence is enabled 7.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.902
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 7.511
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.926
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.602
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
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.532
When I enable persistence 12.007
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.236
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 8.224
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.853
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.234
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.133
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.089
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.060
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 7.856
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.412
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 0.021
When I log in to a new session 7.204
And all notifications have disappeared 9.025
# 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" 0.113
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.144
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.003
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.749
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 7.826
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.773
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.219
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.566
When I log in to a new session 7.907
And all notifications have disappeared 6.576
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.994
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000