Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 10 10 Jun 2026, 13:30

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 21:36.268 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.351
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.110
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.890
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.378
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.823
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.268
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.242
And persistence is disabled 0.138
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.473
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.636
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.160
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.407
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.705
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.899
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
28.713
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.820
And the system is very low on memory 3.485
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.673
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.465
And I free up some memory 0.835
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.181
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.562
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And all tps features are active 1.330
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.222
When I disable the first tps feature 3.055
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.239
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.735
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.606
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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13.441
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.804
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.098
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.041
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.609
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.994
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
46.820
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.399
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.984
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.256
When I write some files expected to persist 1.456
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.541
# 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" 13.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:46.948
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.559
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.569
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.560
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.708
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.848
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
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44.481
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.473
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.375
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:55.402
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.219
When I enable persistence 15.861
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.863
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.042
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.580
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.517
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.632
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 6.350
And the computer reboots Tails 39.603
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.190
Given I enable persistence 8.744
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.229
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.553
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:11.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.168
# 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 25.481
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.573
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.989
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
41.018
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 8.415
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.007
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.209
And all notifications have disappeared 8.300
When I delete the persistent partition 2.703
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.892
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 7.995
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.813
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.760
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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44.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.316
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.141
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.604
And all notifications have disappeared 7.922
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 1.622
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.916
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.568
And I enable persistence 20.410
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.573
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.682
And persistence is enabled 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
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 7.614
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.734
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.881
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 8.668
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.564
When I enable persistence 7.429
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.055
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 8.171
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.175
When I try to enable persistence 1.331
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.215
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.636
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.175
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.450
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.815
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.374
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 12.702
And all notifications have disappeared 9.636
# 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" 0.279
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.540
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.329
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.429
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:335 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.348
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.315
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.150
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.397
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.769
When I log in to a new session 12.511
And all notifications have disappeared 9.239
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.058
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000