Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 4 23 Apr 2026, 14:42

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 21:52.474 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.379
And I update APT using apt 7.358
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.308
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.336
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.501
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.187
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.557
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.002
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.508
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.455
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.564
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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30.651
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.853
And the system is very low on memory 4.631
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.267
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.780
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.205
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.442
And I free up some memory 0.834
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.552
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.403
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.357
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
And all tps features are active 1.214
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.103
When I disable the first tps feature 2.552
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.521
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.989
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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12.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.407
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.558
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.985
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.028
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.740
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.874
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.270
When I write some files expected to persist 1.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.838
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.387
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.196
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.247
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.970
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.574
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 21.596
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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40.077
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.442
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.286
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.306
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.226
When I enable persistence 17.063
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.676
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.679
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.371
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# 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 24.344
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 6.182
And the computer reboots Tails 37.170
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.165
Given I enable persistence 7.052
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.318
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.527
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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2:10.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.412
# 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 29.569
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.168
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.342
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
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40.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.518
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.196
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.988
And all notifications have disappeared 8.500
When I delete the persistent partition 2.718
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.482
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.445
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.817
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.942
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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43.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.019
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.209
And all notifications have disappeared 8.021
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 1.090
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.960
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
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 34.166
And I enable persistence 22.425
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.020
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.736
And persistence is enabled 1.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.492
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.028
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 7.089
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.864
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.800
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.964
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.993
When I enable persistence 6.883
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.033
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.746
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.670
When I try to enable persistence 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.172
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.605
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.247
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.669
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.187
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.990
And all notifications have disappeared 8.996
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.422
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.182
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.342
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.444
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.579
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.749
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.327
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.754
When I log in to a new session 10.830
And all notifications have disappeared 8.608
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.403
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000