Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_flatpak-whisperback 4 13 May 2026, 20:54

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 19:46.670 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.297
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 1:17.326
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.951
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.759
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 8.293
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.339
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.443
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 logged in 8.400
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.690
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 9.402
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.283
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.561
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.304
And the system is very low on memory 3.874
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.543
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.353
And I free up some memory 0.722
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.416
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.117
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 enabled and logged in 8.009
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And all tps features are active 1.000
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.907
When I disable the first tps feature 2.473
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.007
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.053
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.322
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.019
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12.765
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 7.324
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.533
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.743
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 enabled and logged in 7.204
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.472
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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35.331
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 enabled and logged in 7.185
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 8.319
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.208
When I write some files expected to persist 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.795
# 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" 11.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.677
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 7.012
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.724
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.345
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.621
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.283
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.061
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37.417
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.419
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.458
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:38.579
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 8.327
When I enable persistence 12.345
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.653
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.302
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.144
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 6.101
And the computer reboots Tails 34.951
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.266
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.184
Given I enable persistence 7.080
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.213
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.569
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
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2:7.214
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 7.754
# 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 27.541
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.000
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.152
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.747
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 8.190
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.812
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.894
And all notifications have disappeared 7.687
When I delete the persistent partition 2.612
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:18.655
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 enabled and logged in 7.501
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.366
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.484
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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39.620
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 8.113
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.758
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.612
And all notifications have disappeared 7.538
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.279
And all tps features are enabled 0.904
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.196
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 29.731
And I enable persistence 19.008
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.147
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.573
And persistence is enabled 1.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.212
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 7.105
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.467
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.389
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 8.231
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.793
When I enable persistence 6.664
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.416
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 7.645
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.566
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.480
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.952
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 7.498
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.074
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.276
And all notifications have disappeared 9.410
# 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" 0.131
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.096
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.221
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.571
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 7.800
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.057
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.213
When I log in to a new session 10.401
And all notifications have disappeared 8.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.612
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:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000