Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 3 20 Aug 2026, 03:16

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 22:29.646 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.496
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 1:15.714
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.848
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.215
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.799
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 8.447
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.320
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.192
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.738
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 22.025
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.244
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.198
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.371
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.576
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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28.706
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 7.976
And the system is very low on memory 4.492
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.276
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.216
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.391
And I free up some memory 0.424
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.809
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.877
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 8.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.217
And all tps features are active 7.358
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.563
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.488
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.276
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.957
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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12.821
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 7.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.079
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.012
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 enabled and logged in 20.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.445
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.798
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.752
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 7.672
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 9.329
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.479
When I write some files expected to persist 0.923
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.220
# 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" 11.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.935
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 7.395
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.241
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.230
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.680
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.651
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.106
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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38.421
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 8.356
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.157
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.594
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.130
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 8.459
When I enable persistence 20.804
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.794
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.056
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.431
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.294
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 8.216
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.222
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 4.622
And the computer reboots Tails 31.663
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.102
Given I enable persistence 12.380
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.270
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.142
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.881
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 8.143
# 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 27.484
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.290
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.375
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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36.872
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 8.212
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.159
Then persistence is disabled 0.064
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.410
And all notifications have disappeared 8.217
When I delete the persistent partition 2.584
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.686
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 8.022
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.299
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.130
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
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53.007
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 7.929
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.495
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.783
And all notifications have disappeared 7.324
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.242
And all tps features are enabled 7.368
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.599
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:56.035
And I enable persistence 24.474
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.864
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.467
And persistence is enabled 7.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.086
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 7.355
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.272
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.786
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 7.912
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.445
When I enable persistence 12.434
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.006
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 7.740
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.945
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.615
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.080
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.121
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.206
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.139
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 7.832
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.999
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.646
And all notifications have disappeared 8.072
# 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" 0.098
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.072
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.012
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.886
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 7.777
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.172
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.257
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.637
When I log in to a new session 8.178
And all notifications have disappeared 6.590
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.192
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000