Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 81 02 Jul 2026, 14:34

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 21:16.642 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:31.102
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 1:17.123
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.951
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.227
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.975
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 8.084
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.843
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.847
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 logged in 8.301
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.373
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.316
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.212
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.361
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 7.276
And the system is very low on memory 4.464
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.683
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.352
And I free up some memory 0.821
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.443
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.216
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 7.866
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And all tps features are active 4.962
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.798
When I disable the first tps feature 2.497
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.585
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.378
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.305
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
12.815
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 7.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.564
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.428
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 6.810
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.510
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.887
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.328
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 7.013
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 9.534
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.310
When I write some files expected to persist 1.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.477
# 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" 11.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.070
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 6.950
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 9.598
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.515
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.045
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.208
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.345
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.049
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
39.047
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.032
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.718
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.893
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 8.039
When I enable persistence 19.224
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.712
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.059
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.330
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.503
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.836
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
When I cold reboot the computer 10.205
And the computer reboots Tails 35.262
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 10.323
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.198
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.035
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:13.270
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 7.993
# 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 30.555
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.522
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.887
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.111
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 8.001
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.546
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.863
And all notifications have disappeared 7.591
When I delete the persistent partition 2.621
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.984
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 7.558
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.979
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.180
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
48.088
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 7.796
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.102
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.572
And all notifications have disappeared 7.553
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 4.804
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.884
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 31.591
And I enable persistence 24.783
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.892
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.518
And persistence is enabled 5.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.846
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 6.870
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.448
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.956
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 7.966
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.607
When I enable persistence 10.169
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.869
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 7.639
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.169
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.095
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.354
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.242
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 7.208
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.255
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 9.879
And all notifications have disappeared 9.078
# 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" 0.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.085
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.153
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.218
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.301
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 7.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.607
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.759
When I log in to a new session 9.330
And all notifications have disappeared 9.131
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.237
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000