Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 67 05 Oct 2026, 14:58

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 25:32.618 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.721
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 1:32.615
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.717
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.655
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.112
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 9.507
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.218
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.239
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.566
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.440
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.559
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.956
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.241
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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30.358
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 8.081
And the system is very low on memory 4.579
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.328
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.717
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.148
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.400
And I free up some memory 0.561
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.487
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.955
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 8.790
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.262
And all tps features are active 8.727
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.997
When I disable the first tps feature 2.984
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.751
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.796
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.701
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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14.084
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 8.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I disable the first tps feature 3.055
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.362
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 enabled and logged in 7.672
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.847
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.367
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 enabled and logged in 7.999
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 13.279
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.392
When I write some files expected to persist 1.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.354
# 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" 12.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.231
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 enabled and logged in 7.668
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 9.016
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.179
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.332
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.577
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.861
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.348
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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40.035
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.956
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.998
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.318
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.036
When I enable persistence 23.092
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.959
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.236
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.411
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.828
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 5.852
And the computer reboots Tails 34.684
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.188
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.156
Given I enable persistence 13.260
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.059
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.190
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.252
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:14.753
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 8.326
# 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 28.796
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.348
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.374
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
40.198
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 8.778
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.501
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.128
And all notifications have disappeared 8.702
When I delete the persistent partition 2.685
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.813
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 8.521
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.547
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.480
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
56.910
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 8.730
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.103
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.991
And all notifications have disappeared 7.754
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.221
And all tps features are enabled 7.679
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:39.268
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 2:49.817
And I enable persistence 29.988
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.948
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.523
And persistence is enabled 10.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.758
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 7.405
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.752
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.915
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.984
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.766
When I enable persistence 16.960
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.106
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.799
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.040
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.203
When I try to enable persistence 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.648
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.301
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.113
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.743
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 8.596
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.341
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.125
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 8.445
And all notifications have disappeared 8.075
# 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" 0.199
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.214
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.370
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.669
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 8.266
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.801
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.926
When I log in to a new session 8.854
And all notifications have disappeared 7.506
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.176
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000