Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 41 09 Oct 2026, 19:45

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 24:0.348 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.844
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 1:17.182
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.329
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.607
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.242
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.682
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.459
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.408
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 8.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.286
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.247
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.258
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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29.461
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 8.403
And the system is very low on memory 3.875
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.479
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.463
And I free up some memory 0.707
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.201
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.100
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 8.130
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And all tps features are active 8.641
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.900
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.208
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.655
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.219
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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13.438
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 8.168
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I disable the first tps feature 2.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.182
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 enabled and logged in 7.676
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.606
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.750
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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51.171
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 7.558
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 13.123
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.591
When I write some files expected to persist 1.883
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.540
# 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" 11.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.715
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 7.904
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.295
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.804
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.537
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 12.207
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
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40.102
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 8.781
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.765
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:8.032
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.207
When I enable persistence 23.992
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.287
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.422
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.364
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.290
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.501
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.450
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 4.587
And the computer reboots Tails 35.636
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.325
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 14.325
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.187
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.866
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
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2:8.226
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 enabled and logged in 8.193
# 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 29.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.165
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.076
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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38.995
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 8.872
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.276
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.634
And all notifications have disappeared 7.501
When I delete the persistent partition 3.281
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.032
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 8.494
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.331
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.975
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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58.100
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 8.274
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.147
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.687
And all notifications have disappeared 8.257
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 7.806
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.976
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 1:55.706
And I enable persistence 26.962
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.186
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.577
And persistence is enabled 8.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.975
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.618
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.778
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.391
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 8.986
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.448
When I enable persistence 13.361
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.443
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 8.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.910
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.568
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.406
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.045
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.030
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.305
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 8.284
And all notifications have disappeared 7.260
# 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 0.135
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.250
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.136
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.461
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 8.148
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.904
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.297
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.182
When I log in to a new session 8.446
And all notifications have disappeared 8.235
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.180
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000