Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 29 08 Sep 2026, 03:25

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 24:10.192 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.833
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 1:28.885
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.129
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.195
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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52.608
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 34.846
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.441
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.179
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.655
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 8.370
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.646
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.508
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
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28.230
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 8.219
And the system is very low on memory 3.847
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.267
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.323
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.077
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.338
And I free up some memory 0.438
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.673
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.744
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 8.221
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And all tps features are active 7.275
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.406
When I disable the first tps feature 2.454
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.348
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.308
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.271
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.137
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 7.871
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.472
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 2.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.126
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 7.645
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.474
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.845
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.726
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 7.536
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.085
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.636
When I write some files expected to persist 0.979
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.172
# 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" 11.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.363
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 enabled and logged in 20.712
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 9.672
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.345
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.532
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.351
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
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37.870
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.454
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 11.635
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.848
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 21.476
When I enable persistence 20.374
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.088
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.723
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.374
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.281
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.488
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.568
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 4.513
And the computer reboots Tails 32.840
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.108
Given I enable persistence 12.241
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.302
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.816
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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2:3.258
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 8.076
# 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 27.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.167
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.753
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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49.862
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 21.264
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.074
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.928
And all notifications have disappeared 7.658
When I delete the persistent partition 2.609
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.123
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 21.739
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.273
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.873
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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53.839
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 8.216
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.036
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.428
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.560
And all notifications have disappeared 8.084
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.213
And all tps features are enabled 7.674
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.572
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 2:6.061
And I enable persistence 24.692
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.023
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And persistence is enabled 7.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.035
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 7.521
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.059
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.739
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 8.383
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.134
When I enable persistence 12.905
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.037
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.383
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 7.760
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.522
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.418
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.101
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.056
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 20.762
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.673
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.463
And all notifications have disappeared 7.531
# 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" 0.111
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.081
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.052
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.176
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 20.798
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.582
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.160
When I log in to a new session 7.033
And all notifications have disappeared 7.146
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.157
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000