Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 56 09 Jun 2026, 18:04

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 20:8.935 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.938
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.000
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.374
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.687
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 14.468
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.806
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 8.391
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.360
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.937
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.198
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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29.574
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 7.496
And the system is very low on memory 4.345
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.243
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.655
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.148
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.363
And I free up some memory 0.855
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.412
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.028
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 8.019
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And all tps features are active 1.130
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.231
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.404
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.018
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12.523
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
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.867
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 7.157
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.608
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.924
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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39.698
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 7.122
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.871
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.230
When I write some files expected to persist 1.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.494
# 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" 11.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.172
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 6.920
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.379
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.456
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.065
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.677
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.354
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.065
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38.686
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.025
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.062
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.989
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:44.763
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 8.091
When I enable persistence 14.308
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.734
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.382
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.499
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.324
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 10.034
And the computer reboots Tails 36.129
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.239
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.168
Given I enable persistence 7.147
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.504
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:4.084
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 8.055
# 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 30.312
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.345
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.369
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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38.871
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 7.947
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.500
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.368
And all notifications have disappeared 7.970
When I delete the persistent partition 2.603
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.480
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 7.681
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.957
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.574
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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41.099
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 7.579
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.415
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.856
And all notifications have disappeared 7.586
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.244
And all tps features are enabled 0.912
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.796
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 30.758
And I enable persistence 20.168
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.889
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.493
And persistence is enabled 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.357
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 7.003
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.886
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.353
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 7.942
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.265
When I enable persistence 6.521
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.927
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 7.377
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.012
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.560
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.199
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.038
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 7.215
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.948
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I log in to a new session 10.535
And all notifications have disappeared 9.017
# 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" 0.275
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.512
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.236
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.057
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 7.517
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.476
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.406
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.534
When I log in to a new session 9.940
And all notifications have disappeared 8.880
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.398
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 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000