Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 5 30 Apr 2026, 14:41

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 23:10.503 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.959
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 1:25.928
And I update APT using apt 7.686
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.927
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.135
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.968
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.940
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.382
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.144
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.644
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.075
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.772
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.290
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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33.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.448
And the system is very low on memory 4.679
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.146
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.208
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.598
And I free up some memory 1.067
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.167
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.339
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 8.908
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And all tps features are active 1.302
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.328
When I disable the first tps feature 2.655
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.697
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.498
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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14.391
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.126
When I disable the first tps feature 3.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.105
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.796
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 7.713
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.701
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.195
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.693
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 7.787
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 19.061
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.247
When I write some files expected to persist 1.317
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.988
# 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" 13.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.267
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 7.967
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 17.999
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.804
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.607
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.059
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.459
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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44.634
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.443
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.462
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.384
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.966
When I enable persistence 17.821
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.725
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.943
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.405
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.371
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.669
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.976
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 6.653
And the computer reboots Tails 36.812
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.289
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.215
Given I enable persistence 8.229
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.262
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.556
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:18.523
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.673
# 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 31.743
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.850
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.917
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
41.477
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 8.458
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.275
Then persistence is disabled 0.200
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.072
And all notifications have disappeared 8.302
When I delete the persistent partition 2.761
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.826
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.585
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.186
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
47.221
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 8.550
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.532
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.060
And all notifications have disappeared 8.712
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.425
And all tps features are enabled 1.476
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.665
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 36.039
And I enable persistence 22.859
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.230
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.662
And persistence is enabled 1.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.003
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.581
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.897
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.087
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 8.203
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.834
When I enable persistence 6.982
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.441
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 8.774
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.765
When I try to enable persistence 1.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.624
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.524
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.551
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 7.454
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.982
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.112
And all notifications have disappeared 10.043
# 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" 0.210
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.527
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.566
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.291
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.276
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.741
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.433
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.807
When I log in to a new session 10.666
And all notifications have disappeared 10.288
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.937
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000