Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_7929-celluloid-flatpak 73 25 Jun 2026, 14:29

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 21:10.182 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.723
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.672
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.792
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.376
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.278
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.211
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.204
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.093
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.694
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.474
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.388
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.232
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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29.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.364
And the system is very low on memory 4.403
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.735
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.441
And I free up some memory 0.826
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.892
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.492
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.854
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And all tps features are active 4.979
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.893
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.875
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.541
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.783
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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12.846
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.580
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.951
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I disable the first tps feature 2.536
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.965
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.057
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.932
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.804
When I write some files expected to persist 1.014
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.352
# 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" 11.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.173
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.112
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.296
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.322
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.522
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.208
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
Tags: @product
39.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.862
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.689
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.330
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.982
When I enable persistence 20.907
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.713
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.224
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.336
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 6.157
And the computer reboots Tails 35.317
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
Given I enable persistence 9.740
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.802
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.316
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 8.018
# 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 27.617
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.530
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.782
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
40.437
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.872
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.416
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.842
And all notifications have disappeared 8.221
When I delete the persistent partition 2.660
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.025
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.400
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.300
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.045
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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48.892
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.772
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.988
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.688
And all notifications have disappeared 7.488
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.276
And all tps features are enabled 4.741
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:10.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 31.933
And I enable persistence 23.355
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.626
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And persistence is enabled 5.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.050
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 6.943
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.648
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.863
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.798
When I enable persistence 10.210
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.743
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.604
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.198
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.376
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.506
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.414
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.432
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 9.459
And all notifications have disappeared 10.047
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.477
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.145
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.173
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.064
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.618
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.328
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.665
When I log in to a new session 9.950
And all notifications have disappeared 7.939
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.351
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000