Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 99 25 Oct 2026, 03:37

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 23:39.444 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.655
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 1:20.002
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.272
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.612
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.957
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 8.223
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.979
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.206
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.678
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 8.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.710
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.291
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.377
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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30.912
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 8.440
And the system is very low on memory 4.325
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.381
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.335
And I free up some memory 0.571
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.552
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.733
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 8.291
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And all tps features are active 8.357
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.663
When I disable the first tps feature 2.422
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.946
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.678
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.246
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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13.586
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 8.307
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.068
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.198
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.549
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.949
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.499
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
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 13.345
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.959
When I write some files expected to persist 1.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.315
# 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" 11.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.280
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 7.626
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 8.311
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.165
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.389
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.081
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.335
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
38.142
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 8.663
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.205
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.354
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.338
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 8.444
When I enable persistence 21.125
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.942
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.871
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.214
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.135
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.459
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.959
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.111
When I cold reboot the computer 6.154
And the computer reboots Tails 33.745
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 13.652
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.051
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.169
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.599
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:15.764
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 8.532
# 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 29.620
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.612
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.657
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 8.942
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.337
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.345
And all notifications have disappeared 8.066
When I delete the persistent partition 2.571
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.780
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 7.881
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.297
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.353
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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57.833
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 8.429
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.085
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.238
And all notifications have disappeared 8.408
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.394
And all tps features are enabled 8.133
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.887
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:59.288
And I enable persistence 26.446
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.738
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.547
And persistence is enabled 7.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.000
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 7.456
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.026
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.703
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 8.824
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.415
When I enable persistence 13.173
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.397
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 8.575
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.439
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.422
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.102
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.073
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.354
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 8.495
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.845
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.091
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.020
When I log in to a new session 9.321
And all notifications have disappeared 8.016
# 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" 0.191
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.074
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.209
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.093
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.082
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 8.530
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.520
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.262
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.923
When I log in to a new session 7.747
And all notifications have disappeared 6.895
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.071
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000