Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21548-flatpak-install 2 12 May 2026, 14:49

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 20:56.093 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.785
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.699
And I update APT using apt 5.909
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.300
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.564
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.439
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:33.464
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.357
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.418
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.371
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.803
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.828
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.230
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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27.464
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.232
And the system is very low on memory 3.439
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.507
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 0.863
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.697
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:30.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.304
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And all tps features are active 1.148
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.030
When I disable the first tps feature 2.623
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.022
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.778
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.437
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.263
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.821
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.183
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.603
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.096
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.117
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.482
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.282
When I write some files expected to persist 1.259
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.790
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:8.452
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.396
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 16.261
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.648
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.336
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 23.036
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.085
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.044
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37.391
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.497
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.860
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:44.296
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.485
When I enable persistence 12.625
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.617
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.395
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.289
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.522
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.817
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 8.758
And the computer reboots Tails 36.018
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.280
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.182
Given I enable persistence 6.796
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.276
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.577
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:12.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.067
# 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 28.743
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.469
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.829
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
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37.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.802
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.238
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.155
And all notifications have disappeared 7.797
When I delete the persistent partition 2.797
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.537
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.566
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.350
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.339
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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40.485
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.559
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.204
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.464
And all notifications have disappeared 7.731
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.279
And all tps features are enabled 0.944
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 30.122
And I enable persistence 19.308
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.286
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.546
And persistence is enabled 1.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.635
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.022
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.071
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.151
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.836
When I enable persistence 6.421
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.832
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.896
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.683
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.375
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.899
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.326
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.232
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 10.603
And all notifications have disappeared 9.487
# 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" 0.150
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.490
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.344
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.644
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.408
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.707
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.313
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.298
When I log in to a new session 10.570
And all notifications have disappeared 9.110
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.350
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000