Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable-flatpak 2 08 Sep 2026, 13:22

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 24:40.845 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.074
And I update the APT lists using apt 4.990
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.250
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.171
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.207
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.820
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 22.920
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.520
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.132
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.620
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.150
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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30.094
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 8.686
And the system is very low on memory 4.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.503
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.399
And I free up some memory 0.503
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.548
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:57.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.624
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And all tps features are active 8.792
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.896
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.875
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.165
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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13.775
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.315
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.125
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.031
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.760
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.957
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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52.164
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 enabled and logged in 8.137
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 14.368
And I take note of which tps features are available 11.078
When I write some files expected to persist 1.779
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.316
# 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" 11.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.015
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.672
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 6.889
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.187
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 12.522
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.436
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
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39.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.851
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.433
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.870
When I enable persistence 24.855
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.053
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.708
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.430
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.309
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.483
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.187
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 6.231
And the computer reboots Tails 36.277
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.154
Given I enable persistence 14.992
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.326
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.719
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:16.623
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 8.549
# 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 29.531
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.374
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.186
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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40.013
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 8.354
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.184
Then persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.418
And all notifications have disappeared 8.960
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.939
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 21.984
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.412
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.237
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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1:1.585
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.181
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.947
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.680
And all notifications have disappeared 9.040
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.217
And all tps features are enabled 9.271
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.062
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:59.887
And I enable persistence 26.557
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.423
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 8.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.455
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
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 7.589
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.298
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.502
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.725
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.178
When I enable persistence 14.558
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.581
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 8.111
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.637
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.235
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.246
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.315
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.273
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 9.579
And all notifications have disappeared 7.800
# 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" 0.153
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.099
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.289
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.192
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.814
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 8.589
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.903
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.061
When I log in to a new session 8.349
And all notifications have disappeared 7.057
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.428
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000