Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 78 07 Oct 2026, 18:33

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 23:49.470 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.164
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.356
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.583
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.550
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.423
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 8.261
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.700
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.215
And persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.835
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 8.848
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.336
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 5.443
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.580
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.533
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 logged in 8.061
And the system is very low on memory 4.272
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.210
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.541
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 2.475
And I free up some memory 0.470
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.367
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.390
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 8.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And all tps features are active 7.828
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.096
When I disable the first tps feature 2.456
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.502
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.358
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.801
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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13.170
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 7.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.121
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.377
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.031
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 7.534
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
And I disable the first tps feature 2.474
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.857
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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46.497
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.777
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 13.274
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.435
When I write some files expected to persist 0.931
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.241
# 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" 11.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.539
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.803
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.077
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.267
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.083
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 11.491
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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39.241
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 8.660
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.328
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.762
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 21.752
When I enable persistence 22.494
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.738
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.868
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.396
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.279
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.534
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.927
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
When I cold reboot the computer 4.716
And the computer reboots Tails 33.759
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.417
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
Given I enable persistence 13.053
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.055
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 7.034
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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2:3.530
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 8.051
# 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 27.265
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.204
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.298
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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37.527
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 7.916
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.688
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.797
And all notifications have disappeared 8.178
When I delete the persistent partition 2.619
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.487
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 7.574
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.475
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.177
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
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55.161
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 8.126
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.556
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.863
And all notifications have disappeared 8.365
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 7.705
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.449
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 1:58.890
And I enable persistence 28.094
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.382
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.762
And persistence is enabled 8.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.349
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 7.435
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.333
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.794
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.542
When I enable persistence 13.739
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.000
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 8.300
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.829
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.198
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.222
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.239
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.832
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 7.953
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.680
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.503
And all notifications have disappeared 7.930
# 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" 0.131
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.075
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.207
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.051
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.302
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 8.189
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.636
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.281
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.350
When I log in to a new session 8.387
And all notifications have disappeared 7.547
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.053
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000