Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21569-fix-gnome-software-notifications 2 02 Oct 2026, 18:32

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 23:13.535 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.804
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 1:17.061
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.182
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.593
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.249
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 8.601
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.912
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.995
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 8.447
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.363
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.828
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 8.139
And the system is very low on memory 4.101
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.981
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.118
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.449
And I free up some memory 0.471
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.328
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.123
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 8.755
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And all tps features are active 7.992
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.692
When I disable the first tps feature 2.454
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.372
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.656
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.203
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.231
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 7.952
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.334
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 7.964
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.460
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.709
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.078
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 7.684
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.865
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.333
When I write some files expected to persist 1.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.440
# 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" 11.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.156
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 8.000
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 8.234
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.322
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.051
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.722
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
Tags: @product
39.521
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.746
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.529
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.594
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 8.694
When I enable persistence 21.720
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.540
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.514
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.435
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" 4.486
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.585
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 6.018
And the computer reboots Tails 32.327
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.159
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
Given I enable persistence 11.876
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.282
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.105
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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2:10.671
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 enabled and logged in 8.501
# 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 28.980
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.582
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.187
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.047
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 8.245
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.211
Then persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.688
And all notifications have disappeared 8.024
When I delete the persistent partition 2.567
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.312
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 8.353
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.384
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.300
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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55.075
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 8.156
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.697
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.994
And all notifications have disappeared 8.385
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.284
And all tps features are enabled 8.361
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:40.512
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 1:57.886
And I enable persistence 26.138
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.179
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is enabled 7.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.451
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 7.554
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.393
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.064
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 8.600
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.390
When I enable persistence 13.552
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.032
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.597
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 8.367
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.663
When I try to enable persistence 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.153
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.295
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.220
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.346
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 8.090
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.433
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 8.138
And all notifications have disappeared 6.726
# 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" 0.188
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.208
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.039
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.536
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 8.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.243
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.299
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.881
When I log in to a new session 8.401
And all notifications have disappeared 7.393
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.205
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000