Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 16 17 Jun 2026, 08:29

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 23:27.391 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.034
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.297
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.258
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.399
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.586
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.194
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.427
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.461
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.748
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.903
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.994
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
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30.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.031
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.326
And the system is very low on memory 3.454
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.233
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.111
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.493
And I free up some memory 0.882
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.788
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 5.745
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.200
When I disable the first tps feature 2.554
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.361
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.160
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.311
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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13.120
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.658
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 2.471
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.367
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.538
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.982
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.887
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.258
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 12.660
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.404
When I write some files expected to persist 1.315
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.983
# 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" 13.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.403
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.394
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 14.376
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.912
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.335
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.604
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.081
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43.357
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.199
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.128
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.476
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:7.072
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.825
When I enable persistence 20.276
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.957
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.007
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.141
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 10.838
And the computer reboots Tails 39.505
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.186
Given I enable persistence 12.778
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.102
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.228
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.525
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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2:22.178
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.476
# 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 34.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.700
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.172
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
40.239
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.791
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.282
Then persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.946
And all notifications have disappeared 7.847
When I delete the persistent partition 2.814
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.919
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.230
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.787
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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55.818
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.912
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.850
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.214
And all notifications have disappeared 7.787
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.010
And all tps features are enabled 6.229
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.543
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
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 35.677
And I enable persistence 25.869
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.377
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.783
And persistence is enabled 5.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.195
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
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 8.128
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.425
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.050
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.267
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.742
When I enable persistence 11.874
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.618
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.974
When I try to enable persistence 1.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.887
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.539
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.195
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.406
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.383
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.601
And all notifications have disappeared 9.070
# 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" 0.152
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.572
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.228
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.891
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.821
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.813
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.020
When I log in to a new session 11.325
And all notifications have disappeared 9.498
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.832
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000