Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 95 21 Oct 2026, 03:23

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 22:34.123 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.875
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 1:14.900
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.089
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.206
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.503
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 8.787
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.197
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.491
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 8.873
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.302
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.079
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
29.578
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 8.370
And the system is very low on memory 4.394
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.280
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.624
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.509
And I free up some memory 0.566
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.671
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.088
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 8.242
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 7.497
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.617
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.672
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.310
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.053
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 7.799
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.068
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 7.603
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.508
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.814
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
57.077
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 enabled and logged in 20.357
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 12.778
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.642
When I write some files expected to persist 0.899
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.160
# 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" 11.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.732
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 7.575
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 7.770
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.237
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.042
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
Tags: @product
37.719
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 8.271
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.543
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.524
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 21.891
When I enable persistence 20.076
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.254
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.863
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.310
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.390
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.553
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
When I cold reboot the computer 5.856
And the computer reboots Tails 32.598
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.217
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.101
Given I enable persistence 12.050
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.275
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.394
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:2.174
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 8.253
# 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 28.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.310
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.195
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.241
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 8.341
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.468
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.222
And all notifications have disappeared 8.263
When I delete the persistent partition 2.585
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.636
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 7.838
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.038
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.212
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.357
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
53.122
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 8.342
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.468
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.633
And all notifications have disappeared 7.472
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.249
And all tps features are enabled 7.576
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:34.301
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 1:53.741
And I enable persistence 25.136
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.140
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.526
And persistence is enabled 7.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.402
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 7.313
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.646
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.144
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 8.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.909
When I enable persistence 12.476
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.336
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 8.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.170
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.960
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.136
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.513
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 8.265
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.854
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.112
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.555
And all notifications have disappeared 7.125
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.066
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.143
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.990
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.536
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 7.998
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.743
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.533
When I log in to a new session 7.359
And all notifications have disappeared 6.408
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.133
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000