Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 69 05 Oct 2026, 18:06

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 24:58.427 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.792
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 1:23.160
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.166
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.461
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.157
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 8.402
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.580
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.206
And persistence is disabled 0.077
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:0.239
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 36.349
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.892
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.933
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.298
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.247
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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31.637
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.780
And the system is very low on memory 4.403
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.533
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.520
And I free up some memory 0.716
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.323
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.606
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 8.739
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 8.730
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.642
When I disable the first tps feature 2.459
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.658
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.632
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.853
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.304
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 7.997
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.963
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 20.682
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 3.117
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.993
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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47.854
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 7.830
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 12.621
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.049
When I write some files expected to persist 1.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
# 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" 11.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.818
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 7.963
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 8.940
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.929
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.941
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 12.336
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.319
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
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39.720
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 8.736
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.762
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.959
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 8.939
When I enable persistence 22.027
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.812
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.904
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.229
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.218
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.616
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.256
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
When I cold reboot the computer 5.861
And the computer reboots Tails 34.935
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.218
Given I enable persistence 14.094
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.176
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.048
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:11.482
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 8.886
# 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 27.952
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.468
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.512
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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38.647
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 8.565
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.207
Then persistence is disabled 0.077
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.597
And all notifications have disappeared 8.171
When I delete the persistent partition 2.719
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.784
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 8.385
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.254
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.811
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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57.634
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 8.086
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.037
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.752
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.163
And all notifications have disappeared 9.065
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 8.279
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.522
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 2:7.216
And I enable persistence 30.798
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.690
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.493
And persistence is enabled 10.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.469
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.554
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.374
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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47.450
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 9.590
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.103
When I enable persistence 16.803
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.384
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 8.032
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.215
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.449
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.209
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.236
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.431
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
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.710
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 9.427
And all notifications have disappeared 7.101
# 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" 0.193
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.102
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.217
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.174
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.567
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 8.296
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.596
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.961
When I log in to a new session 8.227
And all notifications have disappeared 7.363
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.481
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000