Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 31 18 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 21:12.752 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.636
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 1:20.719
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.673
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.326
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.921
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.664
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.928
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.800
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 8.715
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.847
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.297
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.200
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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31.178
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 7.452
And the system is very low on memory 4.481
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.620
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.360
And I free up some memory 0.823
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.126
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:34.159
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 8.178
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And all tps features are active 1.383
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.158
When I disable the first tps feature 3.164
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.312
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.615
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.292
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
12.919
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 7.537
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.560
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.794
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 7.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 3.036
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.978
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.648
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 7.117
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 13.558
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.168
When I write some files expected to persist 1.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.500
# 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" 12.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.711
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 7.318
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.113
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.497
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.637
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.423
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.366
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.042
Tags: @product
39.911
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 8.671
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.193
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:55.572
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.974
When I enable persistence 18.427
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.701
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.770
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.341
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.566
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.534
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 8.899
And the computer reboots Tails 40.179
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.187
Given I enable persistence 7.559
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.125
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.219
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.265
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
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2:18.440
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 enabled and logged in 8.144
# 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 33.723
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.441
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.525
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
39.539
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 7.816
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.221
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.386
And all notifications have disappeared 7.998
When I delete the persistent partition 2.630
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.986
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 7.558
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.661
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.317
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
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42.854
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 7.871
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.382
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.927
And all notifications have disappeared 7.678
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.352
And all tps features are enabled 1.215
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:5.925
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 32.441
And I enable persistence 20.546
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.835
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.541
And persistence is enabled 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.915
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 7.150
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.152
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.936
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 8.056
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.979
When I enable persistence 6.703
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.685
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 8.028
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.426
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.155
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.381
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.015
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 7.208
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.125
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.002
And all notifications have disappeared 8.680
# 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" 0.191
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.256
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.274
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.198
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 7.490
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.397
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.642
When I log in to a new session 11.744
And all notifications have disappeared 8.243
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.447
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000