Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 51 19 Oct 2026, 19:37

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 23:17.195 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:58.879
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 1:19.140
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.272
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.565
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.050
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 8.275
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.571
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.187
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.895
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 8.313
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.928
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
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 1:0.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.135
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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28.873
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 8.102
And the system is very low on memory 4.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.268
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.469
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.325
And I free up some memory 0.611
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.899
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.694
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 8.296
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 7.904
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.760
When I disable the first tps feature 2.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.870
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.464
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.334
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.298
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 7.872
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.108
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.883
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 20.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.444
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.826
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.542
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 7.759
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 12.258
And I take note of which tps features are available 10.600
When I write some files expected to persist 2.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.255
# 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" 11.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.071
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 7.581
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 8.539
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.505
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.383
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 11.186
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.471
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
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38.379
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 8.670
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.119
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.785
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.219
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 8.463
When I enable persistence 20.830
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.296
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.248
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.354
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.433
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.768
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 5.727
And the computer reboots Tails 33.393
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.297
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 13.575
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.272
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.641
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
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2:2.966
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 8.377
# 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 25.420
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.227
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.644
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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38.158
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 8.339
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.152
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.747
And all notifications have disappeared 7.973
When I delete the persistent partition 2.587
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:28.477
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 20.903
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.037
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.221
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.146
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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54.674
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 8.230
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.626
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.361
And all notifications have disappeared 7.852
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.244
And all tps features are enabled 7.753
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.327
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:56.494
And I enable persistence 25.944
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.816
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.464
And persistence is enabled 7.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.768
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.570
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.745
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.309
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 8.091
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.160
When I enable persistence 13.374
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.672
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 8.029
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.691
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.284
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.101
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.084
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.091
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.414
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 7.860
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.359
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.928
And all notifications have disappeared 6.540
# 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" 0.139
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.079
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.068
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.637
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 8.115
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.107
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.235
When I try to enable persistence 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.940
When I log in to a new session 7.989
And all notifications have disappeared 7.082
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.080
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000