Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 9 24 Aug 2026, 16:31

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 25:43.218 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.505
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.553
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.225
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.396
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 22.285
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.408
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.228
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.535
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.087
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.159
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.473
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.471
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.844
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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30.548
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 7.965
And the system is very low on memory 4.804
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.216
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.720
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.156
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.404
And I free up some memory 0.463
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.759
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.064
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 8.848
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 7.696
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.865
When I disable the first tps feature 2.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.603
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.331
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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14.037
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 8.091
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 3.081
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.479
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.036
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.359
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 7.868
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.448
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.870
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.891
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 8.018
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 9.511
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.659
When I write some files expected to persist 1.350
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.473
# 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" 11.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.633
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 8.016
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.295
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.522
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.747
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.226
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.125
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
41.812
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 8.884
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.110
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.828
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.768
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 8.731
When I enable persistence 22.909
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.188
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.441
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.444
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.362
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.929
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.108
When I cold reboot the computer 6.082
And the computer reboots Tails 34.549
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.386
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.296
Given I enable persistence 14.359
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.141
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.063
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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2:9.279
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 8.685
# 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 27.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.616
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.058
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.364
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 8.858
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.472
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.757
And all notifications have disappeared 8.142
When I delete the persistent partition 2.662
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:26.069
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 8.854
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.611
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.329
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
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56.574
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 8.637
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.960
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.044
And all notifications have disappeared 7.503
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.272
And all tps features are enabled 7.768
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:33.084
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
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 3:44.229
And I enable persistence 30.895
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.585
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.600
And persistence is enabled 9.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.337
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 7.528
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.191
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.748
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.841
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.450
When I enable persistence 15.539
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.773
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 8.817
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.709
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.941
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.113
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.801
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.270
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.564
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 7.997
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.387
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.418
And all notifications have disappeared 7.801
# 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" 0.116
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.075
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.205
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.326
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 8.031
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.393
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.244
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.492
When I log in to a new session 8.571
And all notifications have disappeared 9.323
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.227
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000