Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 15 09 May 2026, 13:59

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 20:41.460 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.573
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.614
And I update APT using apt 6.828
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.362
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.952
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.962
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.292
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.216
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.454
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.335
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.297
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.198
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.475
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.353
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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29.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.311
And the system is very low on memory 5.241
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.231
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.772
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.372
And I free up some memory 0.746
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.878
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.169
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.922
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And all tps features are active 1.066
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.889
When I disable the first tps feature 2.491
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.164
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.127
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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12.858
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.291
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.096
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.075
When I enable the first tps feature 2.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.582
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.100
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.478
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.816
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.833
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.971
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 15.843
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.209
When I write some files expected to persist 1.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.813
# 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" 11.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:6.437
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.171
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 16.085
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.673
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.503
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 21.253
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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38.104
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.126
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.135
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.367
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.365
When I enable persistence 14.963
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.626
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.302
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.287
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.218
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.475
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.688
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 8.765
And the computer reboots Tails 35.267
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.164
Given I enable persistence 6.623
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.214
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.606
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:5.106
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.740
# 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 26.767
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.165
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.101
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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37.746
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.434
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.822
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.482
And all notifications have disappeared 7.799
When I delete the persistent partition 2.775
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.308
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.899
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.389
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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40.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.540
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.961
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.015
And all notifications have disappeared 7.716
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 1.004
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.800
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 31.622
And I enable persistence 21.048
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.174
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.565
And persistence is enabled 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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21.789
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 6.832
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.455
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.684
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.106
When I enable persistence 6.642
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.369
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.301
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.239
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.225
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.113
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.932
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.368
And all notifications have disappeared 10.110
# 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" 0.206
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.461
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.184
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.411
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.317
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.020
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.862
When I log in to a new session 10.195
And all notifications have disappeared 8.362
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.318
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000