Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 77 29 Jun 2026, 14:53

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 23:25.785 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.734
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 1:23.998
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.938
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.350
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.154
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.800
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.644
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And persistence is disabled 0.173
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.494
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.574
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.903
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.010
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.173
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.219
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.613
And the system is very low on memory 4.956
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.251
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.261
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.185
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.400
And I free up some memory 0.822
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.552
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.149
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 8.751
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And all tps features are active 5.076
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.142
When I disable the first tps feature 2.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.850
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.113
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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13.188
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.513
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 2.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.265
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 7.268
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.666
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.128
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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49.152
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 enabled and logged in 7.758
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 13.101
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.746
When I write some files expected to persist 1.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.635
# 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" 12.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.415
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 7.474
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 10.640
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.732
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.789
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.951
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.362
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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44.237
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.566
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.295
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.373
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 8.871
When I enable persistence 19.923
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.813
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.857
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.396
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.508
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.233
When I cold reboot the computer 10.422
And the computer reboots Tails 38.667
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
Given I enable persistence 12.600
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.262
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.316
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:20.576
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.749
# 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 29.359
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.559
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.200
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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42.334
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 8.319
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.414
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.662
And all notifications have disappeared 8.124
When I delete the persistent partition 3.240
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.138
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.478
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.478
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.872
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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55.391
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 8.362
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.351
And all notifications have disappeared 7.649
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.227
And all tps features are enabled 6.285
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 33.645
And I enable persistence 26.957
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.369
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.627
And persistence is enabled 6.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.833
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 7.031
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.144
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.514
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.528
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.446
When I enable persistence 11.389
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.489
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.207
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.291
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.949
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.673
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.856
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 7.267
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.227
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 10.772
And all notifications have disappeared 9.225
# 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" 0.348
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.157
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.275
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.421
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.431
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.016
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.105
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.388
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.015
When I log in to a new session 11.746
And all notifications have disappeared 9.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.008
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:339 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000