Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 51 05 Jun 2026, 14:28

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 21:5.730 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.461
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 1:18.213
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.967
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.358
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.328
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 8.270
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.936
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.635
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.781
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.097
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.546
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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30.813
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 7.338
And the system is very low on memory 4.295
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.456
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.141
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.392
And I free up some memory 0.799
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.135
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:31.852
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 8.099
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And all tps features are active 1.237
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.174
When I disable the first tps feature 3.101
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.502
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.991
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.154
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 7.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.121
When I disable the first tps feature 2.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.467
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.984
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 7.295
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.606
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.893
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.243
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 7.146
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 13.872
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.231
When I write some files expected to persist 1.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.659
# 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" 12.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.331
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 7.327
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.132
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.549
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.172
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 11.412
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.362
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
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41.796
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 8.591
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.180
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:51.708
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 8.637
When I enable persistence 17.230
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.727
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.458
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.336
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.589
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.213
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 8.811
And the computer reboots Tails 37.924
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.175
Given I enable persistence 7.697
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.214
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.834
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:12.851
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 8.051
# 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 30.388
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.833
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.743
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.065
Tags: @product
41.050
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 8.036
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.965
Then persistence is disabled 0.150
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.366
And all notifications have disappeared 8.355
When I delete the persistent partition 2.732
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:21.580
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 7.898
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.640
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.706
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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44.255
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 7.793
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.446
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.381
And all notifications have disappeared 7.993
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.267
And all tps features are enabled 0.975
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:9.174
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 34.675
And I enable persistence 21.921
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.373
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.664
And persistence is enabled 1.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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23.991
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 7.074
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.333
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.707
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 8.028
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.058
When I enable persistence 6.825
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.928
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 8.374
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.356
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.412
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.096
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.170
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.951
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 7.447
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.681
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.124
And all notifications have disappeared 10.153
# 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" 0.225
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.635
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.208
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.271
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.929
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 7.713
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.881
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.832
When I log in to a new session 10.792
And all notifications have disappeared 9.003
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.470
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000