Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 41 24 May 2026, 14:13

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 19:53.452 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.661
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 1:16.287
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.416
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.236
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.700
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 8.216
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.565
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:30.998
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 8.285
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.504
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.391
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.104
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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28.661
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 7.035
And the system is very low on memory 4.465
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.213
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.684
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.339
And I free up some memory 0.758
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.038
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.832
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 7.816
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And all tps features are active 1.219
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.862
When I disable the first tps feature 2.457
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.701
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.275
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.147
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 7.329
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.996
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.695
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 7.070
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.519
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.933
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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37.742
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 7.125
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 8.382
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.179
When I write some files expected to persist 1.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.234
# 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" 11.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.461
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 7.201
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.450
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.608
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.811
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.573
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.119
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
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39.811
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.239
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 12.759
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:42.384
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 8.238
When I enable persistence 13.506
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.503
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.191
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.577
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.733
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 8.759
And the computer reboots Tails 36.191
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.271
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.197
Given I enable persistence 6.734
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
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 8.373
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:4.964
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 7.821
# 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 27.430
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.133
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.396
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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39.820
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 7.810
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.459
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.513
And all notifications have disappeared 7.986
When I delete the persistent partition 2.626
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:16.177
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 7.259
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.579
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.067
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.065
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41.064
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 7.644
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.333
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.932
And all notifications have disappeared 7.603
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.248
And all tps features are enabled 1.002
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.016
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 31.528
And I enable persistence 19.938
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.564
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.562
And persistence is enabled 1.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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21.883
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 6.893
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.480
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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24.186
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 7.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.664
When I enable persistence 5.887
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.922
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 7.634
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.312
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.449
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.149
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.886
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 7.634
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.611
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 9.928
And all notifications have disappeared 8.614
# 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" 0.229
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.249
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.281
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.433
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 7.481
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.535
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.380
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.462
When I log in to a new session 9.607
And all notifications have disappeared 8.794
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.302
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000