Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 90 16 Oct 2026, 03:24

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 22:49.791 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.981
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 1:17.169
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.397
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.650
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.642
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 8.380
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.215
And persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.385
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.402
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.668
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 5.540
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.162
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.190
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 4.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.279
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.450
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.744
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.736
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 8.165
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And all tps features are active 8.045
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.596
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.567
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.664
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.511
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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25.957
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 20.678
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I disable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.041
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.304
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 7.784
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.468
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.859
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.757
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 7.545
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 11.974
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.672
When I write some files expected to persist 1.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.241
# 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" 11.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.274
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 7.600
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 8.348
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 5.208
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.957
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.421
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.372
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.046
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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35.500
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 8.436
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.686
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.998
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 8.416
When I enable persistence 20.497
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.816
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.025
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.232
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.134
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.435
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.507
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
When I cold reboot the computer 5.832
And the computer reboots Tails 31.675
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.314
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
Given I enable persistence 12.714
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.334
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.521
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:6.878
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 8.166
# 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 31.024
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.621
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.619
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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36.703
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 8.416
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.233
Then persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.809
And all notifications have disappeared 8.337
When I delete the persistent partition 2.598
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.073
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 7.935
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.238
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.640
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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52.772
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 8.269
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.933
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.527
And all notifications have disappeared 8.339
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.226
And all tps features are enabled 7.203
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.146
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 1:56.337
And I enable persistence 24.997
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.822
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is enabled 7.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.950
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 7.452
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.728
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.327
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.433
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.231
When I enable persistence 12.007
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.077
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 7.912
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.565
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.663
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.379
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.084
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.496
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 7.872
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.126
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.208
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 7.316
And all notifications have disappeared 8.737
# 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" 0.101
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.063
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.129
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.018
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.637
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 7.787
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.410
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.688
When I log in to a new session 7.000
And all notifications have disappeared 7.284
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.107
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000