Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 52 26 Sep 2026, 03:39

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 21:59.896 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.163
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 1:15.461
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.824
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.195
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.513
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 8.484
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.361
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.599
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 8.655
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.247
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.168
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.155
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
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29.269
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 7.894
And the system is very low on memory 4.117
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.596
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.333
And I free up some memory 0.582
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.445
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.372
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
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.234
And all tps features are active 7.513
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.780
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.555
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.484
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.621
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.066
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12.959
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 7.746
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.404
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.937
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 7.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.042
And I disable the first tps feature 2.447
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.822
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.223
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 7.658
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 7.953
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.285
When I write some files expected to persist 1.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.205
# 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" 10.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.077
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 7.497
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 7.809
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.165
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.845
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.094
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.325
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.091
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36.998
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 8.164
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.855
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.160
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 8.333
When I enable persistence 20.797
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.270
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.507
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.213
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.402
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.113
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.112
When I cold reboot the computer 5.823
And the computer reboots Tails 32.771
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
Given I enable persistence 12.679
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.951
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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2:5.963
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 8.140
# 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 29.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.100
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.464
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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37.728
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 8.027
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.220
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.999
And all notifications have disappeared 8.469
When I delete the persistent partition 2.637
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.662
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 7.737
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.196
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.491
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
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53.149
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 8.187
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.121
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.489
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.995
And all notifications have disappeared 7.980
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.215
And all tps features are enabled 7.800
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.590
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:56.665
And I enable persistence 24.856
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.793
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.469
And persistence is enabled 7.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.423
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.429
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.456
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.116
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 8.442
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.924
When I enable persistence 12.485
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.836
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 8.124
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.575
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.193
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.154
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.093
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.048
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 8.129
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.442
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.087
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.212
And all notifications have disappeared 7.571
# 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" 0.175
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.072
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.112
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.102
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 8.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.967
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.355
When I try to enable persistence 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.006
When I log in to a new session 7.363
And all notifications have disappeared 7.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.045
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000