Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 82 05 Jul 2026, 14:27

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 21:19.639 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.933
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.127
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.401
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.889
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 8.214
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.886
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.979
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 8.273
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.615
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.373
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.080
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.717
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 7.356
And the system is very low on memory 4.704
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.201
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.699
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.186
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.387
And I free up some memory 0.840
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.273
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.015
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 7.778
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 5.233
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.982
When I disable the first tps feature 2.473
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.689
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.475
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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12.594
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 7.197
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.645
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 7.085
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.524
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.865
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.055
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 7.083
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.667
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.150
When I write some files expected to persist 1.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.228
# 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" 11.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.574
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 6.986
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 9.690
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.294
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.374
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.447
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
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40.532
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.052
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.062
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.215
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.301
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 8.279
When I enable persistence 20.363
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.195
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.687
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.312
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.498
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.467
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 8.788
And the computer reboots Tails 36.617
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.272
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
Given I enable persistence 10.440
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.219
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.272
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:10.667
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 7.584
# 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 27.366
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.370
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.896
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
37.605
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 7.432
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.430
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.828
And all notifications have disappeared 7.839
When I delete the persistent partition 2.590
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.893
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 enabled and logged in 7.216
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.427
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.979
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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48.350
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 7.427
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.343
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.374
And all notifications have disappeared 7.573
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.275
And all tps features are enabled 5.003
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:11.065
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 31.441
And I enable persistence 23.947
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.570
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.567
And persistence is enabled 5.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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25.357
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 7.012
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.738
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.244
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 7.295
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.309
When I enable persistence 10.816
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.583
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 7.355
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.487
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.657
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.389
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.077
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 7.070
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.553
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 10.541
And all notifications have disappeared 9.109
# 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" 0.223
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.090
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.190
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.253
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.554
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 7.320
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.725
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.334
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.557
When I log in to a new session 9.927
And all notifications have disappeared 8.355
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.414
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000