Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 75 06 Oct 2026, 19:39

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 24:25.201 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.150
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.967
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.942
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.547
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.521
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.756
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.713
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.219
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.144
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.562
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.160
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.520
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.109
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.468
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
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29.842
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 8.037
And the system is very low on memory 4.126
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.535
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.399
And I free up some memory 0.432
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.971
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.895
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 8.819
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And all tps features are active 8.257
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.037
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.696
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.795
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.503
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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13.787
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 8.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.041
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.333
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 7.723
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.631
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.793
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.007
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 7.677
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 13.189
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.918
When I write some files expected to persist 1.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.398
# 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" 11.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.026
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 7.911
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 8.529
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.216
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.327
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.699
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.742
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.374
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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40.180
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 8.697
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.512
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.794
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 8.815
When I enable persistence 24.856
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.536
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.150
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.253
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.546
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.755
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 5.953
And the computer reboots Tails 34.947
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.336
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
Given I enable persistence 14.924
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.062
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.146
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.643
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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2:10.405
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 8.373
# 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 28.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.354
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.937
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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39.704
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 8.497
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.323
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.736
And all notifications have disappeared 8.131
When I delete the persistent partition 2.674
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.794
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 8.382
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.347
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.797
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
59.296
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 8.285
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.469
And all notifications have disappeared 8.851
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 8.442
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.782
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 2:0.702
And I enable persistence 28.895
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.356
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.594
And persistence is enabled 8.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.903
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 20.594
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.765
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.454
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 8.577
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.030
When I enable persistence 15.442
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.900
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 8.077
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.633
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.344
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.178
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 8.340
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.326
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.030
And all notifications have disappeared 7.370
# 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" 0.183
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.151
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.238
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.217
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.096
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 8.729
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.063
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.263
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.699
When I log in to a new session 8.684
And all notifications have disappeared 6.533
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.683
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 2.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000