Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 88 14 Oct 2026, 03:25

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 22:29.981 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:55.262
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 1:15.993
And I update the APT lists using apt 34.950
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.547
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.115
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 8.314
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.753
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.212
And persistence is disabled 0.063
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.097
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 8.595
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.221
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.263
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.915
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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27.749
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 7.870
And the system is very low on memory 3.807
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.257
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.363
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.283
And I free up some memory 0.497
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.540
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.981
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 8.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.237
And all tps features are active 7.189
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.566
When I disable the first tps feature 2.435
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.627
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.643
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.512
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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13.118
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 7.977
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.377
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.127
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 7.588
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.491
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.873
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.555
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 7.505
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 13.172
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.466
When I write some files expected to persist 0.928
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.257
# 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" 11.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.968
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 7.604
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 9.633
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.290
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.691
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.043
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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36.810
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.248
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.037
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.882
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 8.291
When I enable persistence 19.802
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.702
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.797
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.323
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.514
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.649
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 5.992
And the computer reboots Tails 32.049
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.235
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 12.265
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.160
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.225
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:0.406
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 8.148
# 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 27.348
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.842
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.611
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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37.428
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 8.199
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.525
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.316
And all notifications have disappeared 8.415
When I delete the persistent partition 2.649
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.330
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 7.748
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.236
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.142
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
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53.508
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 8.043
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.160
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.486
And all notifications have disappeared 7.879
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.257
And all tps features are enabled 7.149
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.417
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 1:57.096
And I enable persistence 24.243
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.871
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.478
And persistence is enabled 7.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.942
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 7.360
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.132
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.385
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 8.180
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.003
When I enable persistence 12.432
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.033
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 7.961
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.627
When I try to enable persistence 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.719
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.132
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.084
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.074
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 7.987
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.760
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.184
And all notifications have disappeared 9.178
# 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" 0.127
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.359
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.969
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.783
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 8.003
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.499
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.232
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.352
When I log in to a new session 7.676
And all notifications have disappeared 6.995
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.099
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000