Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 28 26 Sep 2026, 20:07

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 22:42.195 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.119
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 1:16.839
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.339
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.208
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.598
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 8.292
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.369
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.840
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 8.467
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.351
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.346
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.302
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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29.144
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 7.884
And the system is very low on memory 4.258
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.298
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.287
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.365
And I free up some memory 0.496
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.408
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.720
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
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.262
And all tps features are active 7.813
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.841
When I disable the first tps feature 2.467
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.592
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.348
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.154
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 7.882
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I disable the first tps feature 2.406
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 2.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.256
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 7.762
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.440
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.868
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.395
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 7.710
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 8.397
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.674
When I write some files expected to persist 2.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.294
# 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" 11.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.123
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 20.959
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 8.029
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.203
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.472
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 10.526
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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37.119
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 8.270
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 11.200
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.603
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 8.281
When I enable persistence 21.063
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.578
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.920
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.350
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.288
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.525
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.552
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
When I cold reboot the computer 5.781
And the computer reboots Tails 33.092
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
Given I enable persistence 12.979
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.137
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.189
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:2.815
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 8.372
# 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 27.409
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.898
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.896
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
36.822
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 8.351
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.895
Then persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.305
And all notifications have disappeared 8.320
When I delete the persistent partition 2.633
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.877
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 8.410
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.172
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.050
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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54.392
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 8.348
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.447
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.165
And all notifications have disappeared 8.371
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.283
And all tps features are enabled 8.082
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:39.504
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 1:56.677
And I enable persistence 27.191
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.372
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.497
And persistence is enabled 7.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.394
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.183
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.696
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.662
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 8.485
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.287
When I enable persistence 12.222
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.627
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 8.113
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.505
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.101
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.111
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.557
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 20.805
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.243
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.396
And all notifications have disappeared 8.282
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.048
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.467
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.021
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.532
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.366
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.719
When I log in to a new session 6.803
And all notifications have disappeared 6.836
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.290
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000