Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 93 19 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 23:19.926 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.322
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 1:16.009
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.003
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.555
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.601
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 8.619
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.605
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.228
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.428
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 8.436
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.923
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.550
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.816
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.152
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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30.291
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 8.216
And the system is very low on memory 5.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.050
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.081
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 0.499
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.455
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.372
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 8.521
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And all tps features are active 8.668
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.719
When I disable the first tps feature 2.602
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.383
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.227
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.944
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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13.787
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 8.381
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.566
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.598
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 8.076
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.505
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.842
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
57.211
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 20.980
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.989
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.080
When I write some files expected to persist 0.988
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.212
# 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" 10.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.746
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 7.736
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 9.085
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.193
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.770
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.308
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.304
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.086
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50.213
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 21.491
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.199
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.537
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 8.308
When I enable persistence 20.619
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.510
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.107
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.260
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.277
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.505
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.406
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 7.038
And the computer reboots Tails 32.312
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.162
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.103
Given I enable persistence 12.062
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.127
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.387
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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2:4.995
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 8.033
# 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 28.923
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.149
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.029
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073
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37.538
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 8.397
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.183
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.910
And all notifications have disappeared 8.144
When I delete the persistent partition 2.588
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.551
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
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.267
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.993
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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55.566
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 8.154
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.772
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.781
And all notifications have disappeared 8.380
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.307
And all tps features are enabled 7.257
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:33.253
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 1:53.020
And I enable persistence 24.488
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.516
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.502
And persistence is enabled 7.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.845
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 7.734
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.610
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.612
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 8.249
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.365
When I enable persistence 12.247
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.643
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 8.165
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.553
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.113
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.090
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.166
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.561
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 8.257
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.858
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 8.185
And all notifications have disappeared 8.567
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.064
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.130
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.063
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.244
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 8.085
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.253
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.291
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.650
When I log in to a new session 7.749
And all notifications have disappeared 7.113
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.004
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000