Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 89 15 Oct 2026, 03:30

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 23:1.812 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:44.102
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 1:29.425
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.805
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.206
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.580
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 8.626
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.822
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.221
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.558
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 8.525
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.399
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.272
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.679
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.851
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 8.063
And the system is very low on memory 4.253
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.200
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.668
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.395
And I free up some memory 0.513
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.619
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.281
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 8.477
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And all tps features are active 8.673
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.787
When I disable the first tps feature 2.496
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.492
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.695
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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14.163
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 7.925
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 3.516
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.409
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.902
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 enabled and logged in 21.231
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.543
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.916
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.775
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 7.903
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.350
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.237
When I write some files expected to persist 1.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.301
# 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" 11.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.171
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 7.706
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 9.410
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.081
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.887
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.381
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.353
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.049
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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37.674
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 8.235
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.986
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.898
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 8.188
When I enable persistence 21.287
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.873
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.101
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.288
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.529
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.804
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 5.813
And the computer reboots Tails 31.815
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.312
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
Given I enable persistence 12.685
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.138
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.130
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:12.849
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 21.077
# 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 26.242
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.890
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.447
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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36.550
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 8.147
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.512
Then persistence is disabled 0.068
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.313
And all notifications have disappeared 7.644
When I delete the persistent partition 2.639
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.010
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 8.260
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.159
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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53.051
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 8.144
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.529
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.904
And all notifications have disappeared 7.469
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.269
And all tps features are enabled 7.455
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:34.954
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 1:54.643
And I enable persistence 24.953
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.583
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.499
And persistence is enabled 7.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.198
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 7.344
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.425
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.921
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 8.510
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.091
When I enable persistence 12.686
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.030
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.196
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 8.246
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.455
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.544
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.096
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.246
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.141
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 7.815
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.791
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.083
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.101
And all notifications have disappeared 7.916
# 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" 0.103
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.010
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.977
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 7.956
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.873
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.261
When I try to enable persistence 1.129
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.561
When I log in to a new session 8.008
And all notifications have disappeared 6.352
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.016
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000