Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 62 01 Oct 2026, 03:15

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 22:32.476 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.039
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 1:28.621
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.471
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.238
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.972
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 8.503
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.861
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.192
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.695
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 21.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.234
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.333
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.965
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.799
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 8.293
And the system is very low on memory 3.803
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.211
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.198
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 2.498
And I free up some memory 0.629
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.028
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.750
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 8.067
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And all tps features are active 7.867
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.576
When I disable the first tps feature 2.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.354
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.704
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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12.842
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 7.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.858
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 7.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
And I disable the first tps feature 2.419
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.742
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.658
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 7.719
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 7.961
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.778
When I write some files expected to persist 0.875
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.282
# 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" 10.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.656
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 7.620
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 9.038
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.189
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.732
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.385
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.085
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38.004
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.187
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.096
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.036
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.433
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 8.274
When I enable persistence 21.406
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.683
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.225
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.455
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.141
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 5.848
And the computer reboots Tails 31.545
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.288
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.104
Given I enable persistence 13.115
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.278
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.108
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:3.063
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 8.283
# 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 27.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.079
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.272
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.941
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 7.906
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.003
Then persistence is disabled 0.067
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.781
And all notifications have disappeared 8.309
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.208
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 20.601
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.202
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.147
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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53.011
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 7.860
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.334
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.678
And all notifications have disappeared 8.116
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.205
And all tps features are enabled 7.353
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:34.410
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 1:54.568
And I enable persistence 24.700
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.233
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 7.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.013
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 7.404
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.149
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.952
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 8.417
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.555
When I enable persistence 12.111
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.034
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.826
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 8.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.942
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.995
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.108
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.094
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.041
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 7.841
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.051
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.078
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 7.464
And all notifications have disappeared 7.236
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.146
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.988
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.296
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 7.919
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.358
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.241
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.663
When I log in to a new session 8.015
And all notifications have disappeared 6.103
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.062
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000