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test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 135 11 Nov 2026, 03:29

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 23:26.249 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.178
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 1:17.066
And I update the APT lists using apt 36.807
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.614
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.919
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 8.828
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.789
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.208
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.566
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 8.433
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.258
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.313
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.914
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
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28.052
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 7.805
And the system is very low on memory 4.262
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.037
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.073
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.447
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.837
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.458
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 8.159
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 8.470
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.656
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.831
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.274
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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12.973
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 7.691
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.404
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.147
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 7.816
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.427
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.755
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.812
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 7.567
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 11.202
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.324
When I write some files expected to persist 1.023
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.213
# 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" 11.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.529
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 0.068
And Tor is ready 8.440
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.186
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.032
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 11.432
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.331
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.063
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40.272
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 8.543
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.384
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.287
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 8.766
When I enable persistence 23.410
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.604
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.409
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.407
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.374
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.716
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 5.933
And the computer reboots Tails 32.298
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.195
Given I enable persistence 12.500
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.173
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.324
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:8.437
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 8.266
# 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 29.587
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.520
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.605
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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36.776
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 8.074
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.384
Then persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.494
And all notifications have disappeared 7.929
When I delete the persistent partition 2.572
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.337
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 7.883
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.486
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.698
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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54.919
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 7.811
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.320
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.487
And all notifications have disappeared 7.524
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.246
And all tps features are enabled 7.771
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.976
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 2:6.990
And I enable persistence 26.505
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.116
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.523
And persistence is enabled 7.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.962
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.639
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.855
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.079
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 8.439
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.881
When I enable persistence 12.902
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.142
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.753
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.944
When I try to enable persistence 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.394
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.102
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.172
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.058
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 8.160
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.750
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.781
And all notifications have disappeared 8.562
# 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" 0.110
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.067
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.121
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.319
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 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.361
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 7.999
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.003
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.194
When I log in to a new session 7.636
And all notifications have disappeared 8.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.105
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000