Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 30 17 May 2026, 14:09

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 20:12.702 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.997
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 1:18.118
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.818
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.222
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 8.144
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.836
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.449
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 8.224
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.781
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 9.308
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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29.164
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 7.421
And the system is very low on memory 4.426
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.784
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.380
And I free up some memory 0.821
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.950
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.442
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 7.869
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And all tps features are active 1.291
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.872
When I disable the first tps feature 2.466
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.009
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.276
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.302
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.898
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 7.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
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 7.061
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.545
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.941
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
40.108
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 7.081
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.828
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.160
When I write some files expected to persist 1.224
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.513
# 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" 12.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.751
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 7.077
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.835
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.340
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.187
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.551
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.106
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.048
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41.341
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 7.913
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.054
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.927
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:45.851
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 8.402
When I enable persistence 14.625
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.670
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.153
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.391
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.288
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.483
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.195
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 10.187
And the computer reboots Tails 36.494
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.297
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 6.767
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.201
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.097
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.032
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2:9.638
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.986
# 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 28.672
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.299
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.960
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
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38.661
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 7.470
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.073
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.038
And all notifications have disappeared 7.907
When I delete the persistent partition 2.732
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:17.868
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 7.359
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.702
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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40.306
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 7.055
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.520
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.194
And all notifications have disappeared 7.900
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 1.042
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.921
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 31.392
And I enable persistence 19.426
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.012
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.595
And persistence is enabled 1.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.166
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 6.842
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.810
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.731
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 7.511
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.760
When I enable persistence 5.673
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.735
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 7.464
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.275
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.911
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.368
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.141
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.598
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 7.324
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.691
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.011
And all notifications have disappeared 8.507
# 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" 0.337
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.259
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.101
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 7.036
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.217
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.330
When I try to enable persistence 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.673
When I log in to a new session 9.832
And all notifications have disappeared 9.519
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.616
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000