Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 44 26 May 2026, 18:29

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 22:9.107 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.227
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.899
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.374
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.145
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 9.010
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.960
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:46.117
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 9.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.371
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.856
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.015
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.291
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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31.927
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 8.370
And the system is very low on memory 4.691
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.247
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.337
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.137
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.445
And I free up some memory 0.965
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.686
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.188
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 8.394
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And all tps features are active 1.496
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.342
When I disable the first tps feature 2.575
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.783
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.890
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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13.922
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 7.810
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.134
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.106
When I disable the first tps feature 3.087
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.469
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 7.654
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I disable the first tps feature 2.590
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.953
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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42.493
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 7.949
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 14.123
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.178
When I write some files expected to persist 1.275
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.632
# 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" 13.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:56.009
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 7.904
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.574
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.551
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.915
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 19.276
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.040
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43.626
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 8.872
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.066
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.960
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:56.807
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 8.758
When I enable persistence 15.810
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.985
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.113
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.399
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.583
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.477
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
When I cold reboot the computer 9.743
And the computer reboots Tails 40.895
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 7.406
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.241
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:9.019
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 8.579
# 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 27.883
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.698
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.824
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
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43.010
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.667
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.560
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.071
And all notifications have disappeared 8.344
When I delete the persistent partition 2.844
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:25.863
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 8.409
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.865
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.205
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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46.972
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 8.337
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.877
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.848
And all notifications have disappeared 8.422
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.379
And all tps features are enabled 1.555
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:20.642
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 45.644
And I enable persistence 21.310
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.315
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.619
And persistence is enabled 1.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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21.520
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 7.552
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.242
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.152
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 8.759
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.956
When I enable persistence 8.151
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.634
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 8.250
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.360
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.720
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.407
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.139
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.936
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 7.684
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.042
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 13.079
And all notifications have disappeared 9.128
# 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" 0.224
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.713
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.278
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.431
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.587
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 7.780
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.663
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.378
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.089
When I log in to a new session 10.189
And all notifications have disappeared 9.427
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.062
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000