Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 23 20 Sep 2026, 19:39

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 22:56.825 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.201
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 1:17.285
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.047
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.190
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.473
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 8.488
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.133
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.195
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.551
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 8.545
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.777
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.922
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.707
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.144
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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28.093
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 8.012
And the system is very low on memory 4.124
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.203
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.134
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.311
And I free up some memory 0.425
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.638
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.606
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 7.985
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.239
And all tps features are active 7.761
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.961
When I disable the first tps feature 2.495
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.387
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.225
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.707
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.078
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 7.826
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.080
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 20.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.474
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.834
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.950
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 7.448
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.137
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.255
When I write some files expected to persist 1.927
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.262
# 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" 10.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.026
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 21.146
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.917
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.172
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.538
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.285
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
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35.676
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 8.168
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.498
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.153
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 8.325
When I enable persistence 21.566
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.578
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.648
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.401
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.637
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 8.336
And the computer reboots Tails 32.403
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.173
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.108
Given I enable persistence 13.419
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.062
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.282
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.137
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:16.632
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 21.322
# 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 27.301
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.347
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.631
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
35.835
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 7.776
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.942
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.253
And all notifications have disappeared 7.988
When I delete the persistent partition 2.548
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.784
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 7.731
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.530
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.288
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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54.265
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 7.843
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.188
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.178
And all notifications have disappeared 7.894
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.275
And all tps features are enabled 7.565
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.992
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 1:58.521
And I enable persistence 25.446
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.968
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And persistence is enabled 7.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.331
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 7.619
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.306
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.275
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 7.982
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.100
When I enable persistence 12.331
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.063
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 7.961
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.596
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.252
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.294
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.207
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.902
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 7.712
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.181
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.107
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.370
And all notifications have disappeared 6.953
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.071
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.129
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.082
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.852
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 7.983
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.477
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.227
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.103
When I log in to a new session 7.919
And all notifications have disappeared 6.904
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.023
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000