Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 11 06 May 2026, 20:22

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 20:56.257 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.378
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.153
And I update APT using apt 7.231
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.214
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.709
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.115
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.957
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.241
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.074
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.128
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.579
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.396
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.319
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.008
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.305
And the system is very low on memory 4.872
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.450
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.389
And I free up some memory 0.824
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.703
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.891
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.711
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And all tps features are active 1.095
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.828
When I disable the first tps feature 2.624
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.260
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.333
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.551
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.276
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.099
When I disable the first tps feature 2.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.416
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.856
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.550
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.861
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.735
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.111
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.934
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.170
When I write some files expected to persist 1.156
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.653
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.924
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.077
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 16.623
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.547
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.982
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.877
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.442
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
39.067
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.991
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.965
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.286
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.188
When I enable persistence 16.552
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.498
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.215
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.272
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.462
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.074
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 9.959
And the computer reboots Tails 35.189
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.239
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.195
Given I enable persistence 6.704
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.294
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.816
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:2.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.698
# 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 28.755
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.991
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.949
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
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38.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.568
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.999
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.422
And all notifications have disappeared 7.981
When I delete the persistent partition 2.634
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.594
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.251
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.732
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.358
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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41.203
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.247
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.869
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.018
And all notifications have disappeared 7.616
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.256
And all tps features are enabled 0.968
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 31.595
And I enable persistence 20.358
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.336
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 1.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.386
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 6.860
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.018
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.950
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.196
When I enable persistence 6.683
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.137
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.659
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.763
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.769
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.278
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.651
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.471
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.129
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.035
And all notifications have disappeared 8.176
# 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" 0.181
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.076
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.223
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.331
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.430
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.301
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.457
When I log in to a new session 9.725
And all notifications have disappeared 9.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.400
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000