Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 54 08 Jun 2026, 14:32

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 22:16.033 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.616
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.923
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.381
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.296
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 8.636
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.478
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.799
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 9.315
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.489
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.701
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.611
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.254
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.209
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.030
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32.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.781
And the system is very low on memory 4.784
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.314
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.409
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.232
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.421
And I free up some memory 1.050
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.564
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:34.767
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.806
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
And all tps features are active 1.468
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.493
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.381
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.983
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.959
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.012
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14.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.839
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 3.261
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.102
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 2.537
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.318
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 7.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.596
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.955
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
42.190
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 7.645
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 14.411
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.207
When I write some files expected to persist 1.249
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.584
# 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" 13.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:54.193
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 7.519
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 11.243
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.161
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.991
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 13.358
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.080
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46.510
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.105
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.839
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:57.386
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 8.958
When I enable persistence 17.317
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.220
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.841
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.346
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.355
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.604
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.156
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 6.771
And the computer reboots Tails 41.793
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 7.370
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.117
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.270
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.428
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:16.339
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 8.675
# 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 26.901
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.559
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.968
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
44.464
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 8.644
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.516
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.681
And all notifications have disappeared 8.934
When I delete the persistent partition 3.240
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.267
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 7.930
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.890
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.124
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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48.576
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 8.516
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.568
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.801
And all notifications have disappeared 8.216
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.375
And all tps features are enabled 1.374
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:11.365
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.017
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 33.938
And I enable persistence 24.093
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.768
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.760
And persistence is enabled 1.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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23.954
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
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 8.111
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.087
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.317
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.562
When I enable persistence 8.424
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.425
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 7.900
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.601
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.218
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.754
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.149
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.754
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 7.922
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.850
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I log in to a new session 11.544
And all notifications have disappeared 11.651
# 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" 0.241
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.626
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.220
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.385
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.440
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 8.135
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.346
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.395
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.601
When I log in to a new session 13.041
And all notifications have disappeared 9.805
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.150
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000