Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_flatpak-whisperback 1 11 May 2026, 18:29

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 22:31.970 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.110
And I update APT using apt 6.433
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.412
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.404
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.051
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.276
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.374
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.961
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.410
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.068
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.577
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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31.676
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.220
And the system is very low on memory 3.962
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.251
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.940
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.493
And I free up some memory 0.932
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.287
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.640
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.146
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 1.687
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.399
When I disable the first tps feature 3.067
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.296
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.983
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.336
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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14.008
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 3.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.197
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.519
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.017
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.215
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.918
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 17.720
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.320
When I write some files expected to persist 1.367
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.739
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 13.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.099
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.300
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.157
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.883
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 23.149
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.448
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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41.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.089
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.736
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.572
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.445
When I enable persistence 14.776
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.822
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.879
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.447
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.361
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.572
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.996
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 9.560
And the computer reboots Tails 38.974
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.384
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
Given I enable persistence 7.760
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.256
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.728
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:10.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.918
# 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 24.785
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.014
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.846
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
41.379
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.697
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.930
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.490
And all notifications have disappeared 8.088
When I delete the persistent partition 2.717
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.543
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.639
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.615
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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44.494
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.891
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.431
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.451
And all notifications have disappeared 7.988
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.309
And all tps features are enabled 1.063
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 31.429
And I enable persistence 20.116
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.106
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.534
And persistence is enabled 1.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.653
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.329
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.743
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.899
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.764
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.312
When I enable persistence 7.607
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.908
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.955
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.160
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.509
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.704
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.394
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.088
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 13.104
And all notifications have disappeared 9.257
# 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" 0.233
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.506
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.442
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.975
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.818
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.371
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.338
When I log in to a new session 11.182
And all notifications have disappeared 8.728
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.367
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000