Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 36 16 Sep 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 22:2.777 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.690
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 1:14.612
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.086
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.306
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.872
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 8.352
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.617
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.185
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.799
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.275
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.618
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 5.251
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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27.846
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 8.009
And the system is very low on memory 3.797
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.351
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.068
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.315
And I free up some memory 0.461
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.662
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.438
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 8.095
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And all tps features are active 7.610
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.657
When I disable the first tps feature 2.456
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.735
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.579
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.925
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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12.927
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 7.650
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.328
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 7.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.475
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.246
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.563
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 7.541
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 9.323
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.467
When I write some files expected to persist 0.991
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.083
# 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" 11.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.631
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 7.573
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.149
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 5.199
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.557
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.479
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.351
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.031
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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35.848
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.381
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.987
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.355
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 8.409
When I enable persistence 21.296
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.191
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.574
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.199
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.165
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.522
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.685
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.115
When I cold reboot the computer 5.987
And the computer reboots Tails 32.171
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 11.977
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.279
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.011
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:6.865
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 8.289
# 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 29.275
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.207
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.261
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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37.202
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 8.225
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.959
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.105
And all notifications have disappeared 7.975
When I delete the persistent partition 2.621
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.016
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 8.186
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.250
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.344
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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54.711
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 8.155
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.433
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.427
And all notifications have disappeared 7.702
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.229
And all tps features are enabled 7.281
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.399
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 1:54.186
And I enable persistence 25.878
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.457
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.475
And persistence is enabled 7.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.004
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 7.274
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.267
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.082
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 8.418
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.816
When I enable persistence 12.223
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.273
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 8.068
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.906
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.622
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.116
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.132
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.418
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 7.922
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.036
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.079
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 8.339
And all notifications have disappeared 7.521
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.074
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.004
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.500
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 7.946
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.697
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.217
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.991
When I log in to a new session 7.766
And all notifications have disappeared 8.892
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.014
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000