Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 15 12 Sep 2026, 19:41

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 22:42.029 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.616
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 1:15.373
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.315
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.216
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.670
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 8.252
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.395
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.200
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.394
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 8.674
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.248
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.524
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.313
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.320
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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29.410
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 7.823
And the system is very low on memory 4.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.241
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.285
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.313
And I free up some memory 0.664
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.825
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.833
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.307
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And all tps features are active 7.883
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.876
When I disable the first tps feature 2.497
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.785
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.183
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.402
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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26.222
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 20.994
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.467
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.404
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.131
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 7.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
And I disable the first tps feature 2.479
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.878
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
58.174
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 20.719
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 8.356
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.475
When I write some files expected to persist 2.022
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.205
# 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" 11.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.495
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 7.539
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.853
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.162
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.828
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.224
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.424
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
36.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.395
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.641
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.286
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 8.434
When I enable persistence 22.693
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.752
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.117
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.292
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.439
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.481
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 5.729
And the computer reboots Tails 33.157
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
Given I enable persistence 13.348
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.053
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.274
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.378
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:3.440
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 8.127
# 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 26.825
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.136
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.722
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
36.849
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 8.388
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.516
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.412
And all notifications have disappeared 7.670
When I delete the persistent partition 2.560
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.509
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 8.247
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.204
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.802
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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54.634
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 8.153
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.747
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.251
And all notifications have disappeared 8.011
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.222
And all tps features are enabled 7.469
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:33.643
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 1:52.695
And I enable persistence 25.648
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.259
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.481
And persistence is enabled 7.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.131
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 7.360
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.332
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.880
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 8.104
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.366
When I enable persistence 12.376
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.031
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.411
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 7.892
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.574
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.028
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.084
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.227
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.414
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 7.909
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.865
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.111
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 7.996
And all notifications have disappeared 8.925
# 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" 0.122
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.074
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.135
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.107
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.032
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 8.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.318
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.381
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.383
When I log in to a new session 7.501
And all notifications have disappeared 8.414
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.027
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000