Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 57 10 Jun 2026, 14:27

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 21:19.689 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.434
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.452
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.667
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.316
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.485
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 8.234
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.714
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.054
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 8.659
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.031
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.295
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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32.139
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 7.700
And the system is very low on memory 4.673
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.265
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.288
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.249
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.421
And I free up some memory 0.847
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.634
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.272
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 8.550
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.352
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.941
When I disable the first tps feature 2.554
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.882
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.283
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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13.155
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 7.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 2.666
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.172
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 7.328
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.660
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.980
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.222
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 7.476
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.281
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.207
When I write some files expected to persist 1.453
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.514
# 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" 12.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.177
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.454
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.562
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.493
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.146
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.800
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.340
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.064
Tags: @product
43.317
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.345
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.081
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:48.521
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 8.622
When I enable persistence 15.809
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.888
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.678
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.561
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.503
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 6.380
And the computer reboots Tails 37.941
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.258
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 7.507
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.228
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.910
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:18.030
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 8.514
# 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 31.038
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.953
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.027
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
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40.239
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 7.989
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.016
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.874
And all notifications have disappeared 8.095
When I delete the persistent partition 2.806
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.232
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 8.110
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.463
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.343
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.029
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45.386
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 7.851
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.435
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.261
And all notifications have disappeared 7.723
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.435
And all tps features are enabled 1.180
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:7.524
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 32.860
And I enable persistence 22.268
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.016
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.658
And persistence is enabled 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.342
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 7.373
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.266
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.944
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 8.553
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.028
When I enable persistence 7.460
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.841
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 7.797
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.404
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.515
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.354
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.011
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 7.960
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.891
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 11.139
And all notifications have disappeared 9.393
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.139
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.235
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.478
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.182
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 7.739
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.792
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.393
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.258
When I log in to a new session 10.625
And all notifications have disappeared 9.576
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.812
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000