Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 65 04 Oct 2026, 03:30

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 23:43.450 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.473
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 1:17.019
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.183
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.517
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.962
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 8.185
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.292
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.208
And persistence is disabled 0.077
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.865
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 8.539
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.500
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.353
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.799
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.237
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 7.953
And the system is very low on memory 5.179
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.156
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.224
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.116
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.332
And I free up some memory 0.568
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.652
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.324
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 8.581
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And all tps features are active 8.350
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.961
When I disable the first tps feature 2.639
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.535
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.314
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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13.045
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 7.747
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.041
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.418
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.326
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 7.754
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.500
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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46.029
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 7.847
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 13.249
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.852
When I write some files expected to persist 1.011
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.266
# 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" 11.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.139
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 enabled and logged in 7.645
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 9.116
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.283
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 11.028
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.351
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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38.184
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 8.471
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.078
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.187
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 8.542
When I enable persistence 22.008
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.810
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.686
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.453
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.325
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.592
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.122
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
When I cold reboot the computer 5.838
And the computer reboots Tails 33.636
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 12.512
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.110
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.311
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.465
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
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2:4.714
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 8.187
# 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 28.668
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.265
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.907
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
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1:4.359
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 36.213
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.142
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.448
And all notifications have disappeared 7.572
When I delete the persistent partition 2.629
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.572
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 7.919
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.207
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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59.837
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 8.907
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.687
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.241
And all notifications have disappeared 8.399
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.250
And all tps features are enabled 8.579
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:42.838
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 2:0.482
And I enable persistence 25.939
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.222
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.492
And persistence is enabled 8.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.546
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.528
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.535
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.999
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 8.358
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.925
When I enable persistence 12.756
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.161
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 8.242
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.238
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.866
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.220
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.254
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.903
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 8.730
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.173
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.108
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 8.657
And all notifications have disappeared 7.444
# 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" 0.374
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.115
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.167
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.044
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.739
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 9.009
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.539
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.239
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.270
When I log in to a new session 9.073
And all notifications have disappeared 7.520
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.078
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000