Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 12 07 May 2026, 14:39

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 22:28.382 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.317
And I update APT using apt 7.698
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.377
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.879
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.706
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.799
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 9.068
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.548
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.473
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.824
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.040
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.363
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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33.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.029
And the system is very low on memory 5.110
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.301
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.277
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.393
And I free up some memory 0.918
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.564
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.271
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 8.529
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.164
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.093
When I disable the first tps feature 3.111
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.711
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.725
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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13.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.159
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.089
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.586
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 7.310
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 3.115
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.969
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.463
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 17.540
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.357
When I write some files expected to persist 1.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.132
# 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" 12.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.515
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 18.205
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.475
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.730
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.397
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
44.665
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.790
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.096
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.441
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.098
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.878
When I enable persistence 16.216
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.646
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.928
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.381
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.316
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.595
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.355
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
When I cold reboot the computer 8.975
And the computer reboots Tails 41.274
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.264
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
Given I enable persistence 8.719
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.268
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.617
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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2:20.754
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 8.051
# 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 30.809
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.653
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.721
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
39.396
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 7.777
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.641
Then persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.772
And all notifications have disappeared 8.033
When I delete the persistent partition 2.704
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.965
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 7.544
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.521
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.529
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
43.443
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.598
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.978
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.826
And all notifications have disappeared 7.551
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.845
And all tps features are enabled 1.145
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.176
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
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 32.703
And I enable persistence 21.333
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.079
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.546
And persistence is enabled 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.124
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 6.832
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.777
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.107
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 7.428
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.422
When I enable persistence 5.560
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.343
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.429
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.274
When I try to enable persistence 1.357
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.534
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.318
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.157
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.517
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.354
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 10.063
And all notifications have disappeared 8.920
# 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" 0.231
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.101
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.357
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.513
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 7.202
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.908
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.427
When I log in to a new session 10.576
And all notifications have disappeared 7.853
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.338
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000