Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 22 13 May 2026, 14:15

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 20:14.953 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.336
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 1:19.046
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.031
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.326
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.276
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 8.192
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.693
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.068
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 8.264
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.986
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.348
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.726
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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28.491
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.270
And the system is very low on memory 4.237
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.545
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.127
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.343
And I free up some memory 0.780
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.967
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.128
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 7.959
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 1.070
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.861
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.382
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.856
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.731
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 7.318
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.557
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 7.077
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.459
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.853
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
41.958
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 7.125
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.756
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.174
When I write some files expected to persist 1.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.240
# 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" 11.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.656
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 7.431
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 8.562
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.244
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.706
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.992
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.049
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38.920
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 8.379
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.523
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:48.551
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 8.533
When I enable persistence 15.285
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.025
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.555
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.352
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.588
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.392
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 9.984
And the computer reboots Tails 37.312
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.250
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.160
Given I enable persistence 6.121
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.127
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:7.475
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 7.860
# 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 29.696
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.230
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.981
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.804
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 7.926
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.823
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.782
And all notifications have disappeared 8.067
When I delete the persistent partition 2.639
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:17.676
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 7.296
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.564
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.533
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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40.993
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 7.687
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.013
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.090
And all notifications have disappeared 7.676
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 0.965
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:3.978
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.314
And I enable persistence 21.574
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.889
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.501
And persistence is enabled 1.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.984
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 6.872
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.537
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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24.950
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 7.537
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.074
When I enable persistence 6.666
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.233
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 7.137
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.795
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.388
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.270
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.543
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 7.288
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.457
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 10.666
And all notifications have disappeared 8.707
# 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 0.469
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.264
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.633
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 7.357
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.806
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.332
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.721
When I log in to a new session 10.123
And all notifications have disappeared 8.069
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.384
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000