Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 80 08 Oct 2026, 14:03

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 24:14.533 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.325
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 1:20.564
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.412
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.570
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.065
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 8.709
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.144
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.198
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.485
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 9.608
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.265
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 5.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.920
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.342
And the system is very low on memory 4.279
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.289
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.272
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.451
And I free up some memory 0.526
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.604
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.642
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 9.310
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.145
When I disable the first tps feature 2.583
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.818
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.676
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.573
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
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13.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.282
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.271
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 7.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.538
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.764
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.906
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 enabled and logged in 7.871
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 13.504
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.667
When I write some files expected to persist 1.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.312
# 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" 11.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.124
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 7.853
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.418
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.232
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.982
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.811
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.440
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
Tags: @product
38.935
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.654
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.052
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.186
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.230
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 9.618
When I enable persistence 22.862
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.674
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.016
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.503
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.290
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.494
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.488
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
When I cold reboot the computer 6.188
And the computer reboots Tails 32.950
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.254
Given I enable persistence 14.459
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.118
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.389
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.320
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:9.260
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 8.220
# 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 31.006
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.268
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.062
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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39.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.798
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.895
Then persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.263
And all notifications have disappeared 7.498
When I delete the persistent partition 2.889
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.686
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 8.235
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.370
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.833
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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1:3.511
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 8.891
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.344
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.808
And all notifications have disappeared 8.649
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.363
And all tps features are enabled 9.591
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.611
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:5.264
And I enable persistence 27.675
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.535
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And persistence is enabled 8.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.697
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
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 7.765
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.375
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.856
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 9.401
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.825
When I enable persistence 15.005
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.077
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 8.863
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.587
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.679
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.239
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.099
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 7.953
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.118
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.982
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.020
When I log in to a new session 9.261
And all notifications have disappeared 7.002
# 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" 0.211
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.116
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.196
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.118
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.498
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 8.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.003
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.833
When I log in to a new session 8.446
And all notifications have disappeared 7.393
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.151
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000