Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 81 08 Oct 2026, 18:00

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 24:14.161 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.199
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 1:23.518
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.196
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.498
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.870
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 9.259
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.125
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 8.952
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.259
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.226
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.996
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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43.724
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 21.504
And the system is very low on memory 5.172
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.623
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.180
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.340
And I free up some memory 0.443
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.269
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.514
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 8.425
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And all tps features are active 8.637
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.882
When I disable the first tps feature 2.519
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.801
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.916
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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13.160
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 7.860
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.080
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.397
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.970
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 7.403
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.558
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.823
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:0.132
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 20.924
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 13.356
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.669
When I write some files expected to persist 1.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.369
# 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" 11.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.310
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 7.712
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 9.599
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.289
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.352
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.581
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
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39.392
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 8.536
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.236
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.781
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 8.524
When I enable persistence 21.878
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.965
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.033
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.518
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.171
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
When I cold reboot the computer 4.694
And the computer reboots Tails 33.855
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 13.324
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.151
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.097
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:21.785
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 21.617
# 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 26.615
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.395
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.522
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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40.436
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.012
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.742
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.111
And all notifications have disappeared 8.540
When I delete the persistent partition 2.639
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.525
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 8.411
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.249
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.567
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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56.855
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 8.586
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.396
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.310
And all notifications have disappeared 7.816
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.330
And all tps features are enabled 8.525
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:39.645
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 1:55.971
And I enable persistence 26.103
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.791
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.622
And persistence is enabled 8.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.937
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 7.655
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.796
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.819
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 8.480
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.156
When I enable persistence 12.281
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.904
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 8.189
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.004
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.455
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.161
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.224
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.293
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 8.259
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.675
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 8.859
And all notifications have disappeared 7.274
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.071
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.153
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.031
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.774
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.074
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.433
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.246
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.063
When I log in to a new session 8.362
And all notifications have disappeared 6.907
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.312
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000