Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 72 06 Oct 2026, 03:20

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 22:55.797 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.098
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 1:15.811
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.042
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.601
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.622
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 8.476
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.233
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.685
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 8.434
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.699
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.274
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.760
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.141
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
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28.389
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 7.921
And the system is very low on memory 4.729
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.915
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.075
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.352
And I free up some memory 0.626
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.528
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.484
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 7.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And all tps features are active 7.493
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.500
When I disable the first tps feature 2.419
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.225
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.710
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.421
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.147
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 7.804
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.667
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 20.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.447
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.737
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.648
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 7.694
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.719
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.727
When I write some files expected to persist 0.971
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.170
# 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" 11.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.738
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 7.684
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 8.244
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.216
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.658
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.068
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.161
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
35.320
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 8.286
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.991
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.323
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 8.309
When I enable persistence 20.833
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.488
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.474
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.227
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.130
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.436
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.079
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 5.799
And the computer reboots Tails 31.793
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.196
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.103
Given I enable persistence 12.485
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.129
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.519
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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2:8.762
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 8.276
# 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 31.752
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.442
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.526
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.848
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 8.287
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.401
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.873
And all notifications have disappeared 8.329
When I delete the persistent partition 2.620
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.582
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 8.101
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.316
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.931
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
54.296
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 8.216
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.716
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.611
And all notifications have disappeared 7.913
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.240
And all tps features are enabled 7.076
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.949
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 1:57.450
And I enable persistence 25.420
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.019
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.542
And persistence is enabled 7.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.872
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 7.497
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.929
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.976
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 8.000
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.030
When I enable persistence 12.298
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.034
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.163
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 7.869
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.923
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.410
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.139
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.085
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.453
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 7.914
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.277
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.132
And all notifications have disappeared 7.443
# 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" 0.160
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.055
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.009
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.763
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 8.149
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.159
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.819
When I log in to a new session 7.555
And all notifications have disappeared 6.706
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.143
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000