Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 8 23 Aug 2026, 03:22

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 22:26.909 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.984
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 1:16.362
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.787
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.182
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.032
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 8.343
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.064
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.229
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.169
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 35.330
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.474
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.937
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.817
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.149
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
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28.770
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 7.989
And the system is very low on memory 4.748
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.080
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.084
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.360
And I free up some memory 0.719
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.569
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.224
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 8.105
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And all tps features are active 7.781
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.605
When I disable the first tps feature 2.455
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.809
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.012
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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12.985
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 7.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.402
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.040
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.952
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 7.379
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.559
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.394
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 7.510
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.014
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.792
When I write some files expected to persist 0.892
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.148
# 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" 11.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.257
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 7.538
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 7.941
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.194
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.575
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.254
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
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36.718
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 8.342
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.931
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.122
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 8.129
When I enable persistence 21.014
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.735
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.684
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.318
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.475
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.820
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
When I cold reboot the computer 5.784
And the computer reboots Tails 31.551
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.229
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 11.977
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.181
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.332
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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2:3.660
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 7.976
# 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 30.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.145
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.049
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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37.645
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 8.281
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.362
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.694
And all notifications have disappeared 8.290
When I delete the persistent partition 2.639
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.838
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 7.898
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.123
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.595
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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53.480
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 8.214
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.996
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.619
And all notifications have disappeared 7.446
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.252
And all tps features are enabled 7.296
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.501
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 1:57.720
And I enable persistence 26.085
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.603
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 7.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.454
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 7.294
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.672
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.920
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 8.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.281
When I enable persistence 12.148
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.167
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.754
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.944
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.272
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.199
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.170
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 7.879
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.129
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.477
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 7.567
And all notifications have disappeared 7.356
# 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" 0.136
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.083
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.195
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.069
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.807
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 7.778
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.002
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.306
When I try to enable persistence 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.544
When I log in to a new session 7.270
And all notifications have disappeared 7.698
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.191
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000