Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 19 16 Sep 2026, 19:37

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 22:23.854 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:26.521
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 1:15.110
And I update the APT lists using apt 4.525
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.211
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.659
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 8.298
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.224
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.208
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.755
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 8.440
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.253
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.223
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.357
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.165
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.542
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 7.933
And the system is very low on memory 3.923
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.862
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.452
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.746
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.074
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 8.435
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And all tps features are active 7.846
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.978
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.337
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.873
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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12.732
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 7.974
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 1.940
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.139
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 7.690
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.474
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.787
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.923
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 7.615
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 9.977
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.542
When I write some files expected to persist 1.629
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.195
# 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" 10.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.626
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 7.650
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.625
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.174
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.667
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.656
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.415
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.085
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37.520
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 8.297
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.240
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.404
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 8.286
When I enable persistence 20.256
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.547
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.063
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.531
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.774
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 5.898
And the computer reboots Tails 32.569
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.204
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
Given I enable persistence 12.518
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.297
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.186
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:8.350
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 enabled and logged in 8.400
# 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 27.724
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.424
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.548
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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38.316
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 8.450
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.565
Then persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.955
And all notifications have disappeared 8.474
When I delete the persistent partition 2.572
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.216
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 8.220
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.388
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.302
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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55.409
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 8.314
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.847
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.053
And all notifications have disappeared 8.329
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.207
And all tps features are enabled 7.901
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.752
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 1:56.309
And I enable persistence 25.618
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.845
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.454
And persistence is enabled 7.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.813
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 7.533
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.835
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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39.519
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 8.458
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.750
When I enable persistence 12.783
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.414
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 7.984
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.178
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.166
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.135
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.241
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.349
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 7.899
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.273
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 7.466
And all notifications have disappeared 6.995
# 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" 0.118
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.244
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.044
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.814
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 8.286
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.118
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.274
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.344
When I log in to a new session 7.389
And all notifications have disappeared 7.426
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.080
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000