Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 71 05 Oct 2026, 20:57

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 24:21.920 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.626
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 1:21.061
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.293
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.571
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.428
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 9.005
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.432
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.235
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 9.172
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.032
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.338
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.992
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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30.203
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.381
And the system is very low on memory 4.244
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.590
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.532
And I free up some memory 0.681
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.457
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.809
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 8.159
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And all tps features are active 8.619
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.756
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.225
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.539
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.064
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.879
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 8.187
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.130
When I enable the first tps feature 2.677
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.614
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 7.953
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.564
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.909
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.287
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 8.205
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 11.939
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.229
When I write some files expected to persist 1.211
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.361
# 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" 12.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.132
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 8.228
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 9.073
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.552
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.115
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 12.273
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.406
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
Tags: @product
53.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.338
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 12.022
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.608
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 8.971
When I enable persistence 22.166
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.801
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.190
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.387
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.347
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.595
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.423
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 7.207
And the computer reboots Tails 35.366
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.114
Given I enable persistence 13.644
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.152
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.617
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:9.928
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 9.286
# 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 27.481
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.212
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.966
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
Tags: @product
39.634
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 8.394
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.055
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.003
And all notifications have disappeared 9.108
When I delete the persistent partition 2.699
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.484
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 7.817
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.496
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.923
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
58.941
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 8.562
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.525
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.070
And all notifications have disappeared 8.618
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.207
And all tps features are enabled 8.907
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.706
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 2:2.125
And I enable persistence 27.211
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.164
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And persistence is enabled 8.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.949
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 8.060
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.357
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.765
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 8.581
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.223
When I enable persistence 14.773
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.315
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 8.637
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.980
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.278
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.107
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.101
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.105
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.355
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 8.414
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.531
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.115
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.151
And all notifications have disappeared 7.223
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.347
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.216
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.736
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 8.079
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.062
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.343
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.662
When I log in to a new session 7.842
And all notifications have disappeared 7.609
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.187
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000