Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 40 23 May 2026, 14:20

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 20:12.197 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.395
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 1:18.164
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.180
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.277
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.814
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 8.094
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.910
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.887
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 8.334
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.472
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.516
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.936
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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31.160
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 8.049
And the system is very low on memory 5.768
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.582
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.158
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.512
And I free up some memory 0.880
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.008
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:24.845
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 7.799
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And all tps features are active 1.145
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.278
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.467
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
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13.458
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 8.077
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.106
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.647
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 7.096
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.479
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.860
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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36.501
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 7.315
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.080
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.196
When I write some files expected to persist 1.257
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.456
# 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" 12.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.154
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 7.546
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.570
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.444
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.107
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.643
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.486
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.087
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39.856
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 8.423
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.642
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:43.286
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 8.086
When I enable persistence 14.457
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.583
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.202
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.519
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.172
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 8.747
And the computer reboots Tails 35.885
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.180
Given I enable persistence 5.930
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.111
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.252
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.064
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:3.884
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 7.940
# 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 28.255
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.411
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 58.884
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
40.062
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 7.890
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.492
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.064
And all notifications have disappeared 8.431
When I delete the persistent partition 2.693
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:18.989
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 8.046
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.233
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.075
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41.854
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 7.918
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.826
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.308
And all notifications have disappeared 8.174
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.285
And all tps features are enabled 0.964
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.479
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 34.058
And I enable persistence 21.562
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.540
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 1.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.747
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 7.593
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.613
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.465
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 8.341
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.735
When I enable persistence 6.669
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.114
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 8.051
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.405
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.734
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.265
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.880
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 8.154
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.059
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.422
And all notifications have disappeared 8.927
# 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" 0.143
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.458
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.189
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.349
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.710
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 8.134
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.631
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.193
When I log in to a new session 9.240
And all notifications have disappeared 8.822
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.397
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000