Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 63 15 Jun 2026, 14:46

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 23:23.350 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.371
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.465
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.570
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.593
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.806
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.267
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.416
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.967
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.239
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.939
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.846
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
32.890
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.329
And the system is very low on memory 4.628
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.386
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.125
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.169
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.408
And I free up some memory 0.829
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.962
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.855
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And all tps features are active 5.983
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.187
When I disable the first tps feature 2.596
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.626
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.047
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.258
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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14.204
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 2.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.028
When I enable the first tps feature 2.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.201
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.818
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 3.148
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.024
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.243
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.517
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.814
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.847
When I write some files expected to persist 1.376
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.580
# 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" 13.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.281
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.868
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.420
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.680
And I capture all network traffic 0.033
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.727
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.427
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
Tags: @product
43.535
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.563
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.173
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.505
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.202
When I enable persistence 20.709
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.043
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.682
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.306
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.438
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
When I cold reboot the computer 9.597
And the computer reboots Tails 39.418
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.340
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 11.696
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
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 9.275
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:21.544
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.828
# 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 29.311
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.822
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.230
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
43.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.609
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.043
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.108
And all notifications have disappeared 8.351
When I delete the persistent partition 2.631
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.828
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
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 1:10.749
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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54.174
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.884
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.733
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.981
And all notifications have disappeared 8.158
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.323
And all tps features are enabled 5.247
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.057
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.056
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 35.071
And I enable persistence 26.451
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.818
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.612
And persistence is enabled 6.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.463
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
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 8.374
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.475
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.452
When I enable persistence 11.109
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.575
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.792
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.275
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.209
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.317
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.335
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.766
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.117
And all notifications have disappeared 9.524
# 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" 0.261
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.495
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.290
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.664
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.059
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.171
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.395
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.695
When I log in to a new session 11.291
And all notifications have disappeared 9.571
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.929
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000