Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 5 08 Sep 2026, 18:11

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 25:14.147 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:47.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:35.110
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.560
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.227
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.402
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 9.122
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.093
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.376
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 9.100
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.719
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.561
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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30.028
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 8.390
And the system is very low on memory 4.267
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.253
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.624
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.171
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.411
And I free up some memory 0.525
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.334
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:25.725
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.042
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 35.544
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 8.852
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.299
When I disable the first tps feature 2.461
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.482
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.722
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.629
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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13.741
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 8.319
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.561
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.696
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 8.178
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.111
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.778
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
53.461
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 enabled and logged in 8.086
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 13.888
And I take note of which tps features are available 11.843
When I write some files expected to persist 1.786
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.425
# 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" 12.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.037
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 8.012
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.608
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.396
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.045
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.942
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.414
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
40.917
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.909
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.425
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.117
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 10.004
When I enable persistence 23.588
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.066
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.221
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.335
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.347
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.497
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.160
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 6.280
And the computer reboots Tails 37.136
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.355
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 16.682
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.147
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.560
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
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2:13.962
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 8.872
# 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 28.444
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.634
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.293
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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42.063
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 9.180
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.298
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.999
And all notifications have disappeared 9.343
When I delete the persistent partition 2.759
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.029
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.430
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.294
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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59.935
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 8.788
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.615
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.713
And all notifications have disappeared 7.828
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 8.116
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.665
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 1:58.875
And I enable persistence 28.779
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.009
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.775
And persistence is enabled 9.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
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 8.352
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.489
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.691
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 9.218
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.338
When I enable persistence 14.922
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.112
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.614
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 9.154
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.943
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.063
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.104
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.351
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.119
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.543
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 8.666
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.170
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.947
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 8.123
And all notifications have disappeared 7.203
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.107
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.291
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.394
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.832
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.424
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.646
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.412
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.902
When I log in to a new session 9.164
And all notifications have disappeared 7.623
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.523
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000