Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 35 03 Oct 2026, 19:38

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 23:1.893 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.951
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.268
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.574
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.032
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 8.444
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.258
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.237
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.247
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 8.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.217
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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29.203
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 7.931
And the system is very low on memory 4.741
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.368
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.080
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.388
And I free up some memory 0.441
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:57.739
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
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And all tps features are active 7.755
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.833
When I disable the first tps feature 2.438
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.635
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.238
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.594
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.028
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 7.890
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.400
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.215
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 7.811
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.473
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.778
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.973
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 7.617
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 12.220
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.537
When I write some files expected to persist 2.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.218
# 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" 11.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.634
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 8.021
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.541
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.255
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.246
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 10.723
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
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37.233
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 8.512
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.229
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.580
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 8.544
When I enable persistence 21.809
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.488
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.711
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.412
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.130
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.565
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.853
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
When I cold reboot the computer 5.825
And the computer reboots Tails 33.146
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.312
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 12.478
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.275
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.449
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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2:3.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.190
# 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 27.260
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.195
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.661
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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38.062
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 8.180
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.642
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.696
And all notifications have disappeared 8.645
When I delete the persistent partition 2.577
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.888
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 7.748
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.039
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.151
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.762
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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52.732
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 8.004
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.133
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.729
And all notifications have disappeared 7.299
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.278
And all tps features are enabled 7.685
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.972
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 1:57.981
And I enable persistence 24.872
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.277
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.462
And persistence is enabled 7.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.886
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 7.582
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.882
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.488
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 8.025
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.400
When I enable persistence 11.880
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.832
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.128
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.129
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.094
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.637
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 7.702
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.338
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.468
And all notifications have disappeared 7.514
# 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" 0.142
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 1.060
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.182
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 7.811
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.474
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.267
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.166
When I log in to a new session 7.520
And all notifications have disappeared 6.794
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.070
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000