Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 24 25 Jun 2026, 08:05

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 20:46.046 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.053
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.627
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.259
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.244
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.538
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 8.325
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.010
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.226
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.813
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 8.254
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.955
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 5.751
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.174
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
27.291
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 7.177
And the system is very low on memory 3.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.511
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.114
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.357
And I free up some memory 0.810
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.754
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.255
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 8.044
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 5.264
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.901
When I disable the first tps feature 2.455
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.755
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.501
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.441
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
12.760
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 enabled and logged in 7.346
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.071
When I enable the first tps feature 2.415
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.863
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 7.027
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I disable the first tps feature 2.623
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.894
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.909
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 7.127
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.407
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.972
When I write some files expected to persist 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.205
# 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" 11.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.103
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 7.002
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.677
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.202
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.403
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.065
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
38.147
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.378
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.333
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.246
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 8.509
When I enable persistence 15.909
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.547
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.334
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.331
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
# 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 24.604
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
When I cold reboot the computer 9.972
And the computer reboots Tails 35.068
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.271
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 10.637
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
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 9.510
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:7.164
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 enabled and logged in 7.551
# 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 25.633
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.074
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.400
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
35.722
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 7.426
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.477
Then persistence is disabled 0.160
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.985
And all notifications have disappeared 7.658
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.907
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 7.106
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.283
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.241
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
46.310
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 7.212
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.739
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.055
And all notifications have disappeared 7.665
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 4.568
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.377
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 28.696
And I enable persistence 23.150
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.316
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.702
And persistence is enabled 5.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.114
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 6.985
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.660
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.260
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 7.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.449
When I enable persistence 10.147
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.079
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 7.346
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.422
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.616
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.356
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.148
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.799
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 7.104
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.887
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.917
And all notifications have disappeared 8.880
# 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" 0.258
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.245
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.326
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 7.498
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.943
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.305
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.533
When I log in to a new session 9.815
And all notifications have disappeared 9.069
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.240
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000