Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 37 05 Oct 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 25:20.710 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:36.399
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 1:18.585
And I update the APT lists using apt 1:10.274
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.570
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.638
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 22.535
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.565
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.219
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.948
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.045
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.420
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.294
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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30.344
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 8.606
And the system is very low on memory 4.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.519
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.148
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.369
And I free up some memory 0.474
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.940
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.833
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 8.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And all tps features are active 7.606
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.859
When I disable the first tps feature 2.427
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.738
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.393
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.432
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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14.309
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 8.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.652
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.110
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.524
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.165
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
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.493
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.731
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
53.242
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 8.199
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 12.982
And I take note of which tps features are available 11.957
When I write some files expected to persist 1.990
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.399
# 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" 12.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.277
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 8.324
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 10.698
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.331
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.533
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 13.274
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.465
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
39.574
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 9.208
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.130
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.112
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 9.104
When I enable persistence 24.519
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.819
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.384
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.424
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.951
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 5.991
And the computer reboots Tails 35.825
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.336
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.145
Given I enable persistence 16.636
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.292
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.557
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.107
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2:14.909
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.644
# 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 30.621
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.517
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.820
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
41.706
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 9.105
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.361
Then persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.826
And all notifications have disappeared 9.082
When I delete the persistent partition 2.704
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.093
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 8.584
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.241
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.971
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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58.226
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 8.896
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.780
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.107
And all notifications have disappeared 8.146
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.241
And all tps features are enabled 8.239
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.579
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 1:59.671
And I enable persistence 27.192
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.640
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.571
And persistence is enabled 9.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.317
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 7.705
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.021
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.617
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 9.034
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.420
When I enable persistence 14.675
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.555
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 8.413
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.037
When I try to enable persistence 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.953
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.201
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.229
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.222
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 8.389
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.530
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.094
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 8.913
And all notifications have disappeared 7.022
# 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" 0.198
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.416
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.639
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 8.755
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.069
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.297
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.617
When I log in to a new session 7.833
And all notifications have disappeared 7.489
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.443
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000