Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 29 30 Jun 2026, 08:16

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 22:11.040 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.141
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.552
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.291
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.229
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 8.741
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.407
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.775
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 9.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.587
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.607
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.361
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.251
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
29.021
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 7.659
And the system is very low on memory 3.669
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.226
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.808
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.408
And I free up some memory 1.073
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.013
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.266
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 8.385
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.470
And all tps features are active 5.815
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.976
When I disable the first tps feature 2.523
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.243
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.799
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.533
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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13.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.754
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.065
When I enable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.292
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 7.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.715
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.977
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.749
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 7.199
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.134
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.066
When I write some files expected to persist 1.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.310
# 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" 11.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.304
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 enabled and logged in 7.423
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.610
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.597
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.577
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.372
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
40.057
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 8.542
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 13.452
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.664
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 8.592
When I enable persistence 18.927
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.019
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.581
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.340
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" 4.526
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.077
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 9.201
And the computer reboots Tails 37.503
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.327
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.197
Given I enable persistence 11.166
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.240
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.327
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:14.632
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 8.499
# 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 29.531
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.320
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.743
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.076
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.427
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.508
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.783
And all notifications have disappeared 7.829
When I delete the persistent partition 2.942
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.303
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.561
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.477
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
51.515
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 8.053
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.335
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.954
And all notifications have disappeared 7.997
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.382
And all tps features are enabled 5.081
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.610
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 31.667
And I enable persistence 25.145
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.624
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.604
And persistence is enabled 5.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.243
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 7.533
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.092
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.173
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 8.816
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.151
When I enable persistence 11.214
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.068
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.091
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.576
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.629
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.533
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.553
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 7.404
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.691
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.215
And all notifications have disappeared 9.446
# 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" 0.206
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.461
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.223
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.518
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.695
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.356
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.358
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.006
When I log in to a new session 12.335
And all notifications have disappeared 8.679
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 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000