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test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 44 12 Oct 2026, 19:51

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 24:20.841 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.175
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 1:20.752
And I update the APT lists using apt 34.838
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.532
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.849
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 8.567
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.489
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.969
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 9.468
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.707
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.678
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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29.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.605
And the system is very low on memory 4.225
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.418
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.318
And I free up some memory 0.537
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.437
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.151
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 enabled and logged in 8.327
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And all tps features are active 7.986
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.460
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.503
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.461
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.863
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
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13.518
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 8.237
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.836
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 8.279
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.496
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.865
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
57.031
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 7.771
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.561
And I take note of which tps features are available 17.368
When I write some files expected to persist 1.419
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.377
# 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" 12.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.993
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 7.922
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.824
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.445
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.439
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 12.260
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.412
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.097
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39.648
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.973
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.393
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.159
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.748
When I enable persistence 23.439
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.425
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.467
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.487
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.580
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
When I cold reboot the computer 5.945
And the computer reboots Tails 35.063
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.224
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.214
Given I enable persistence 16.010
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.324
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.330
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:11.832
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 8.572
# 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 30.928
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.370
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.748
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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42.105
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 9.405
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.721
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.841
And all notifications have disappeared 9.138
When I delete the persistent partition 2.677
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.538
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 8.250
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.326
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.691
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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1:1.439
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 8.843
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.390
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.656
And all notifications have disappeared 8.624
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.391
And all tps features are enabled 8.625
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.017
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:1.279
And I enable persistence 27.643
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.752
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.508
And persistence is enabled 7.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.732
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 7.575
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.639
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.930
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 8.833
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.133
When I enable persistence 13.743
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.135
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.449
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.918
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.157
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.200
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.115
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.552
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 7.989
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.933
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 7.962
And all notifications have disappeared 6.638
# 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" 0.122
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.085
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.254
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.327
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 8.306
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.808
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.024
When I log in to a new session 8.606
And all notifications have disappeared 8.033
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.243
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000