Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21559-flatpak-locale-tests 4 01 Sep 2026, 20:18

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 27:41.694 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.784
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.786
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.758
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.277
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.271
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 22.749
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:6.867
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 36.726
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.739
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.368
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.281
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.155
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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45.014
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 22.090
And the system is very low on memory 4.821
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.033
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.147
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.462
And I free up some memory 0.933
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.305
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:57.305
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 8.884
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And all tps features are active 8.415
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.437
When I disable the first tps feature 3.164
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.407
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.888
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.119
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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14.180
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 enabled and logged in 8.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 2.507
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.938
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 7.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I disable the first tps feature 3.081
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.851
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.576
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 8.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 13.506
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.783
When I write some files expected to persist 1.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.573
# 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" 12.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.417
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 8.165
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 9.825
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.311
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.103
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.237
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.417
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
40.985
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.760
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 13.721
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.414
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 9.091
When I enable persistence 24.533
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.051
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.302
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.303
# 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 22.473
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.196
When I cold reboot the computer 6.526
And the computer reboots Tails 35.260
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.460
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.214
Given I enable persistence 14.553
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.375
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.110
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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2:8.805
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 8.661
# 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 27.777
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.483
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.245
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
41.194
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 8.443
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.332
Then persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.417
And all notifications have disappeared 8.829
When I delete the persistent partition 2.757
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.500
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 8.749
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.573
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.899
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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1:4.205
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 8.437
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.753
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.386
And all notifications have disappeared 8.113
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.280
And all tps features are enabled 10.020
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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5:14.676
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:24.104
And I enable persistence 30.403
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.352
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.479
And persistence is enabled 10.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.262
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 7.995
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.720
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.872
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 8.816
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.446
When I enable persistence 16.438
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.036
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 8.502
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.519
When I try to enable persistence 1.351
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.899
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.121
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.541
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.128
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.751
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 8.321
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.280
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.094
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.348
And all notifications have disappeared 8.131
# 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" 0.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.068
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.139
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.122
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.635
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 8.617
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.207
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.398
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.529
When I log in to a new session 8.517
And all notifications have disappeared 6.760
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.223
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000