Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 26 13 May 2026, 20:24

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 21:14.984 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:34.933
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 1:20.216
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.461
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.284
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
31.539
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 8.638
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.729
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.275
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 8.667
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.489
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.226
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
31.574
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 8.095
And the system is very low on memory 4.367
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.185
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.537
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.151
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.450
And I free up some memory 0.776
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.940
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.517
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 7.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And all tps features are active 1.457
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.030
When I disable the first tps feature 2.600
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.436
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.477
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.010
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
13.010
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.485
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.756
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 7.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I disable the first tps feature 2.585
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.806
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.898
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 7.247
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.124
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.216
When I write some files expected to persist 1.246
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.807
# 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" 12.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.080
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 7.477
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.398
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.736
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.835
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 13.972
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.073
Tags: @product
45.287
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 8.429
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.659
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
2:45.806
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 8.406
When I enable persistence 14.908
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.938
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.600
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.889
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 6.749
And the computer reboots Tails 38.320
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.183
Given I enable persistence 7.114
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.244
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.604
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.034
Tags: @product
2:14.189
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 8.389
# 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 29.729
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.752
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.962
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
40.304
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 8.188
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.205
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.568
And all notifications have disappeared 8.191
When I delete the persistent partition 2.649
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.852
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 7.802
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.593
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.179
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product
43.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.890
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.854
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.716
And all notifications have disappeared 7.784
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.828
And all tps features are enabled 1.119
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.362
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 32.206
And I enable persistence 20.684
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.169
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.590
And persistence is enabled 1.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.285
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.875
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.902
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.785
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 7.934
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.040
When I enable persistence 6.737
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.206
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 7.982
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.532
When I try to enable persistence 1.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.403
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.475
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.173
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.672
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 7.216
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.770
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 0.029
When I log in to a new session 10.653
And all notifications have disappeared 9.520
# 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" 0.238
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.462
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.358
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.978
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 7.483
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.382
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.343
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.306
When I log in to a new session 10.218
And all notifications have disappeared 8.458
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.357
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000