Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 66 18 Jun 2026, 14:37

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 22:45.577 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.150
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.381
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.718
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.280
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.063
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.786
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.284
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.875
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 8.860
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.553
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.986
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.200
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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30.592
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 logged in 7.526
And the system is very low on memory 4.369
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.305
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.246
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.211
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.358
And I free up some memory 0.770
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.751
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.005
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 8.788
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
And all tps features are active 5.054
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.016
When I disable the first tps feature 3.022
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.893
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.660
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.116
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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13.974
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 8.039
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 3.041
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.265
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 7.407
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.674
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.972
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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48.134
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 7.758
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.442
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.414
When I write some files expected to persist 1.218
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.746
# 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" 12.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.978
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 7.192
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.220
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.862
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.917
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.958
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.129
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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43.133
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.605
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 15.323
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.493
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.643
When I enable persistence 19.285
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.709
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.601
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
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" 4.587
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.033
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 6.808
And the computer reboots Tails 38.228
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
Given I enable persistence 11.425
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.230
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.451
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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2:18.808
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 8.460
# 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 30.301
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.879
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.282
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
42.332
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 8.727
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.611
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.357
And all notifications have disappeared 8.263
When I delete the persistent partition 2.888
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.766
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.200
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.639
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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52.362
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 8.441
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.184
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.589
And all notifications have disappeared 7.628
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.416
And all tps features are enabled 5.736
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.658
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 35.075
And I enable persistence 27.351
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.638
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.675
And persistence is enabled 5.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.259
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 7.198
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.521
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.898
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 8.804
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.550
When I enable persistence 10.935
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.645
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 7.939
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.964
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.330
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.148
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.943
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.035
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.985
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.043
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 9.917
And all notifications have disappeared 10.143
# 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" 0.172
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.717
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.212
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.515
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.104
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 8.047
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.118
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.508
When I log in to a new session 10.867
And all notifications have disappeared 9.565
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.705
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000