Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 80 01 Jul 2026, 14:42

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 22:54.539 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.943
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 1:21.647
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.050
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.306
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.835
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.246
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 8.849
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.612
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.245
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.654
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.509
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.071
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.472
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 7.920
And the system is very low on memory 4.608
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.181
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.724
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.941
And I free up some memory 0.951
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.945
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.353
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 8.763
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 6.115
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.291
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.456
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.984
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.052
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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14.837
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 7.839
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.124
When I disable the first tps feature 3.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.199
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.373
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 7.701
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.929
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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50.640
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 7.793
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.887
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.033
When I write some files expected to persist 1.427
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.474
# 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" 13.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.611
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 7.154
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.817
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.870
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.796
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.197
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
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43.908
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.958
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.042
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.524
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 8.980
When I enable persistence 21.982
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.042
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.968
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.416
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.540
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.948
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 9.190
And the computer reboots Tails 38.597
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.299
Given I enable persistence 12.341
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.103
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.870
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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2:12.578
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 8.048
# 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 28.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.224
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.482
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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41.234
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 7.888
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.236
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.365
And all notifications have disappeared 8.532
When I delete the persistent partition 2.717
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.929
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 7.955
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.703
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.995
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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54.776
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 7.958
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.387
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.801
And all notifications have disappeared 7.728
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.464
And all tps features are enabled 6.315
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.254
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 33.033
And I enable persistence 27.885
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.277
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.654
And persistence is enabled 6.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.482
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
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 7.174
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.662
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.678
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 8.308
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.105
When I enable persistence 12.130
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.133
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 7.657
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.119
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.479
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 5.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.165
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 7.350
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.408
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 11.133
And all notifications have disappeared 9.699
# 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" 0.207
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.668
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.266
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.450
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 7.644
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.410
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.378
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.948
When I log in to a new session 11.334
And all notifications have disappeared 7.889
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.774
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000