Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 39 22 May 2026, 14:38

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 21:56.932 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.364
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.018
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.777
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.370
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.277
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.582
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 9.262
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.583
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.345
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.373
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 8.735
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.546
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.668
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.622
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.234
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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33.329
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.491
And the system is very low on memory 4.584
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.201
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.762
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.197
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.720
And I free up some memory 1.003
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.316
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.225
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 8.368
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.385
And all tps features are active 1.486
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.269
When I disable the first tps feature 3.172
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.283
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.596
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.046
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13.341
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 7.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 2.770
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.316
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 7.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I disable the first tps feature 2.602
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.015
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.333
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 7.857
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.866
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.209
When I write some files expected to persist 1.291
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.070
# 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" 13.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:48.546
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 7.755
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.712
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.845
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.758
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.493
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.580
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.126
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42.732
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.797
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.278
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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3:0.258
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 8.994
When I enable persistence 18.136
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.802
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.927
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.583
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.572
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.372
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 10.672
And the computer reboots Tails 40.272
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.278
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.211
Given I enable persistence 7.486
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.204
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.069
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:25.346
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 8.517
# 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 27.814
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.446
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:19.031
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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40.440
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 7.585
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.091
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.854
And all notifications have disappeared 8.398
When I delete the persistent partition 2.941
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.198
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 enabled and logged in 7.312
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.793
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.802
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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43.853
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 7.606
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.599
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.817
And all notifications have disappeared 7.782
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.302
And all tps features are enabled 1.144
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:8.083
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 33.756
And I enable persistence 21.808
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.106
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.664
And persistence is enabled 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.050
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 7.080
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.379
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.398
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 8.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.243
When I enable persistence 6.876
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.220
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 7.757
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.117
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.173
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.420
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.121
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.174
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.734
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 7.188
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.184
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 9.465
And all notifications have disappeared 10.597
# 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" 0.227
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.493
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.244
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.201
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 7.520
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.774
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.828
When I log in to a new session 9.473
And all notifications have disappeared 8.955
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.468
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000