Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 50 24 Sep 2026, 14:52

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 23:38.821 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.162
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.661
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.343
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 8.580
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.415
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.178
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.082
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.084
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.361
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.547
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.368
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.364
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.135
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 8.135
And the system is very low on memory 4.040
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.536
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.300
And I free up some memory 0.485
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.347
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.277
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 8.567
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 8.120
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.083
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.903
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.625
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.842
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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13.764
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 8.195
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.127
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.387
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 7.764
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.552
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.814
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.774
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 7.747
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 9.736
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.975
When I write some files expected to persist 1.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.211
# 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" 11.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.716
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 7.858
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 10.128
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.286
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.971
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.736
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.300
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.094
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39.732
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 8.519
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.598
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.179
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 8.690
When I enable persistence 21.979
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.577
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.931
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.323
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.310
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.469
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.605
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 6.111
And the computer reboots Tails 33.552
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.185
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.234
Given I enable persistence 14.166
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.092
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.332
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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2:2.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.443
# 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 26.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.112
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.650
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.057
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37.976
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 8.063
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.580
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.714
And all notifications have disappeared 8.401
When I delete the persistent partition 2.800
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.277
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 8.097
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.208
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.748
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
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56.776
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 8.167
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.190
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.593
And all notifications have disappeared 8.404
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.408
And all tps features are enabled 7.985
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:24.397
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 2:36.487
And I enable persistence 30.191
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.445
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.533
And persistence is enabled 9.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.915
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 7.649
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.676
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.715
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 8.986
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.288
When I enable persistence 15.513
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.036
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 7.982
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.771
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.848
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.212
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.871
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 7.709
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.321
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 9.235
And all notifications have disappeared 6.698
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.163
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.235
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.071
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.671
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 7.951
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.721
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.253
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.335
When I log in to a new session 8.466
And all notifications have disappeared 6.973
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.051
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000