Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 6 08 Sep 2026, 20:11

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 23:45.894 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.274
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.042
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.196
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.142
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 8.643
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.809
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.210
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 9.516
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.203
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.608
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.015
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.330
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
29.851
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.439
And the system is very low on memory 4.154
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.317
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.167
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.496
And I free up some memory 0.541
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.531
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.881
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 8.373
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.469
And all tps features are active 9.266
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.199
When I disable the first tps feature 2.555
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.590
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.978
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.904
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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13.729
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 enabled and logged in 8.203
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.703
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 8.236
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.455
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.855
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
51.782
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 enabled and logged in 8.153
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.892
And I take note of which tps features are available 11.952
When I write some files expected to persist 1.580
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.257
# 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" 11.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.857
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 7.905
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.165
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.497
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.060
And I capture all network traffic 0.020
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 11.345
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.421
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
38.957
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 8.541
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.182
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.746
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.379
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 8.880
When I enable persistence 22.875
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.366
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.875
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.457
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.484
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.996
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 4.709
And the computer reboots Tails 35.464
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
Given I enable persistence 14.259
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.507
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:8.795
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 8.234
# 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 26.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.421
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.716
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
41.070
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 9.215
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.684
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.168
And all notifications have disappeared 8.921
When I delete the persistent partition 2.720
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.400
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 8.390
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.478
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
59.876
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 8.482
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.925
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.702
And all notifications have disappeared 8.639
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 8.900
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.748
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 1:56.221
And I enable persistence 28.139
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.777
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.535
And persistence is enabled 9.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.591
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 7.613
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.470
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.180
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 9.014
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.248
When I enable persistence 15.100
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.787
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 8.827
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.375
When I try to enable persistence 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.646
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.119
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.236
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.244
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.997
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 8.150
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.118
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 8.917
And all notifications have disappeared 7.765
# 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 0.091
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.238
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.127
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.676
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 8.607
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.839
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.360
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.809
When I log in to a new session 8.591
And all notifications have disappeared 7.966
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.168
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000