Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 31 29 Sep 2026, 19:53

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 24:7.326 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.860
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.141
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.048
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.765
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.837
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 22.808
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.457
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.292
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.034
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.654
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.298
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
29.592
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.273
And the system is very low on memory 4.346
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.336
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.598
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.141
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.541
And I free up some memory 0.478
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.816
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 23.006
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And all tps features are active 9.643
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.307
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.900
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.355
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.636
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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13.687
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 8.248
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 2.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.696
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 8.017
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.566
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.926
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.308
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 8.150
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.757
And I take note of which tps features are available 11.147
When I write some files expected to persist 1.769
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" 12.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.153
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 enabled and logged in 7.810
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 10.350
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.487
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.178
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 12.276
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.466
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
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39.230
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.630
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.076
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.085
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 8.707
When I enable persistence 22.776
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.965
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.332
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.254
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.307
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.677
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.021
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 5.921
And the computer reboots Tails 33.843
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.127
Given I enable persistence 14.823
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.359
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.255
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:11.818
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 8.344
# 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 27.890
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.736
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.330
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
38.520
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.325
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.189
Then persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.787
And all notifications have disappeared 8.153
When I delete the persistent partition 2.668
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.911
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.760
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.394
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.515
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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56.753
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.251
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.220
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.056
And all notifications have disappeared 7.473
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.331
And all tps features are enabled 8.202
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:39.253
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 1:55.829
And I enable persistence 27.043
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.735
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.506
And persistence is enabled 8.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.743
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 7.630
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.536
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.099
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 8.242
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.217
When I enable persistence 13.935
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.369
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 7.907
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.347
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.732
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.147
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.101
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.337
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 8.374
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.357
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 8.451
And all notifications have disappeared 8.185
# 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" 0.235
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.140
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.201
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.053
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 8.104
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.640
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.378
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.724
When I log in to a new session 7.367
And all notifications have disappeared 7.052
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.610
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000