Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_flatpak-whisperback 6 14 May 2026, 21:49

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 19:42.099 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.762
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.398
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.988
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.540
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.354
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.460
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.192
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.647
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.315
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.023
Tags: @product
28.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.332
And the system is very low on memory 4.265
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.368
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.892
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.879
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.149
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.127
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And all tps features are active 1.277
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.117
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.675
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.926
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.541
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.356
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.682
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.156
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.531
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.820
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.146
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.086
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.829
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.184
When I write some files expected to persist 1.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.481
# 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" 11.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:34.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.202
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 9.665
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 5.310
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.623
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.106
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.345
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.125
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.043
Tags: @product
38.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.201
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.145
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:38.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.254
When I enable persistence 11.375
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.677
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.197
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.535
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.363
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 6.013
And the computer reboots Tails 35.862
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.183
Given I enable persistence 6.122
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.201
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.022
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:8.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.117
# 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 28.880
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.334
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.842
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.076
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.361
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.788
And all notifications have disappeared 7.673
When I delete the persistent partition 2.609
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:15.072
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.336
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.799
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.656
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
41.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.829
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.796
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.329
And all notifications have disappeared 7.714
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 1.182
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
59.785
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 30.293
And I enable persistence 17.929
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.679
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.505
And persistence is enabled 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.043
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 6.877
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.655
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.484
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.197
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.856
When I enable persistence 5.642
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.157
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.528
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.794
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.383
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.138
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.195
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.553
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.987
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.082
And all notifications have disappeared 8.523
# 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" 0.355
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.304
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.491
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.817
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.985
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.306
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.984
When I log in to a new session 10.227
And all notifications have disappeared 9.129
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000