Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 68 05 Oct 2026, 16:28

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 23:45.962 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.459
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 1:35.457
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.134
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.659
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.503
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 8.399
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.918
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.186
And persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.101
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 22.237
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.420
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.639
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.392
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.145
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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29.175
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 8.117
And the system is very low on memory 4.287
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.338
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.651
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.083
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.385
And I free up some memory 0.462
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.789
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.975
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 8.874
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And all tps features are active 9.511
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.702
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.866
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.190
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.209
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.751
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 7.958
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 3.004
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.374
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 7.918
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.505
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.764
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.396
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 7.841
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 11.357
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.968
When I write some files expected to persist 1.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.243
# 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" 11.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.588
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
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.135
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.097
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.400
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.561
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 11.026
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.349
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.080
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39.225
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 8.677
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.009
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.040
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 8.346
When I enable persistence 22.099
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.687
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.031
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.225
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.135
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.425
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.721
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
When I cold reboot the computer 7.014
And the computer reboots Tails 32.186
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
Given I enable persistence 12.652
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.142
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.515
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:6.559
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 8.360
# 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 27.755
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.117
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.114
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.309
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 8.710
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.674
Then persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.480
And all notifications have disappeared 8.493
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.168
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 7.997
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.203
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.703
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
54.746
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 8.459
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.832
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.850
And all notifications have disappeared 8.164
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.313
And all tps features are enabled 7.500
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.539
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 1:56.684
And I enable persistence 26.754
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.189
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.476
And persistence is enabled 7.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.388
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 7.374
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.560
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.014
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 8.477
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.923
When I enable persistence 12.876
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.035
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.654
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 8.180
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.395
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.488
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.139
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.100
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.629
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 7.889
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.666
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.120
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.020
When I log in to a new session 7.580
And all notifications have disappeared 8.891
# 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" 0.114
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.068
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.036
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.358
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.935
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.532
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.246
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.256
When I log in to a new session 7.930
And all notifications have disappeared 7.337
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.018
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000