Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 32 19 May 2026, 14:39

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 23:16.785 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.664
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.014
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.920
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.495
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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33.914
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 9.315
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.559
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:48.899
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.753
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.484
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.156
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.740
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.664
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.336
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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33.296
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 8.244
And the system is very low on memory 4.498
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.805
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.236
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.412
And I free up some memory 1.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:41.467
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 8.567
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And all tps features are active 1.534
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.358
When I disable the first tps feature 5.327
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.247
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.060
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.556
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.020
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20.861
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 8.017
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 9.941
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.467
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.749
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.304
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I disable the first tps feature 9.925
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.251
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
50.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.860
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 17.947
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.231
When I write some files expected to persist 1.460
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.530
# 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" 13.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:50.470
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 7.976
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.116
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 10.117
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.276
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.126
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.409
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.055
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45.716
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.073
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.729
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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3:0.868
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 8.299
When I enable persistence 16.323
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.313
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.868
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.284
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
When I cold reboot the computer 9.777
And the computer reboots Tails 43.619
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.256
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 7.653
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.326
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.369
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:28.275
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.524
# 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 37.273
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.251
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.653
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
45.652
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 8.846
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.395
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.367
And all notifications have disappeared 9.154
When I delete the persistent partition 3.289
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.786
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 7.873
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.878
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.698
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
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48.991
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.711
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.443
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.369
And all notifications have disappeared 8.090
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.392
And all tps features are enabled 1.282
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:14.248
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 35.516
And I enable persistence 25.084
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.048
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.572
And persistence is enabled 2.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.109
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.716
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.594
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.314
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 7.960
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.844
When I enable persistence 7.079
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.742
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 8.719
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.773
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.810
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.469
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.174
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.304
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 7.664
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.551
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 0.034
When I log in to a new session 14.450
And all notifications have disappeared 10.225
# 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" 0.275
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.789
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.362
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.628
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.125
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 8.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.693
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.746
When I log in to a new session 11.252
And all notifications have disappeared 9.220
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.746
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000