Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21584-yelp-flatpak-sandbox-escape 2 18 May 2026, 22:05

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 19:54.499 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.202
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.893
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.201
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.255
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 8.585
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.947
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:34.632
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 8.355
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.637
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.897
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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29.283
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.146
And the system is very low on memory 4.756
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.555
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.367
And I free up some memory 0.775
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.437
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:30.469
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 8.337
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
And all tps features are active 1.133
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.827
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.076
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.004
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.874
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.322
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.654
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.744
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 7.237
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.553
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.782
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
38.973
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 7.066
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.663
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.144
When I write some files expected to persist 1.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.350
# 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" 11.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.537
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 7.224
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.051
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 9.348
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.011
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.247
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.073
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37.042
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.466
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 12.652
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:42.542
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 8.421
When I enable persistence 12.829
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.945
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.318
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.480
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.008
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
When I cold reboot the computer 6.383
And the computer reboots Tails 36.591
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.256
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 7.030
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.226
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.788
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:10.445
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 enabled and logged in 8.285
# 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 28.838
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.570
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.287
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.025
Tags: @product
36.653
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 7.577
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.284
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.505
And all notifications have disappeared 8.114
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.283
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 7.732
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.338
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.939
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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39.556
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.567
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.562
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.843
And all notifications have disappeared 7.922
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.304
And all tps features are enabled 1.024
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.760
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.673
And I enable persistence 18.808
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.185
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is enabled 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.191
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 6.903
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.775
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.382
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 8.159
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.898
When I enable persistence 6.665
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.699
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.968
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.372
When I try to enable persistence 1.342
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.133
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.470
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.813
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 7.447
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.354
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 10.836
And all notifications have disappeared 9.202
# 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" 0.174
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.080
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.286
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.151
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.756
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.885
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.942
When I log in to a new session 9.593
And all notifications have disappeared 8.348
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000