Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 36 09 Jul 2026, 08:11

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 20:42.765 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.270
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 1:16.218
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.938
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.251
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.381
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 8.644
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.608
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.330
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.420
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.817
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
27.735
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 7.424
And the system is very low on memory 3.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.512
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.364
And I free up some memory 0.799
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.928
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.800
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 8.102
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And all tps features are active 4.973
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.968
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.403
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.841
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.466
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 7.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.552
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.409
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.587
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 7.080
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.516
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.790
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.239
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 7.074
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 8.342
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.027
When I write some files expected to persist 1.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.863
# 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" 11.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.328
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 7.250
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.914
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.434
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.668
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.394
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.319
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
38.106
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.327
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.190
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:52.943
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 8.624
When I enable persistence 17.141
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.633
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.287
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.297
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.495
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.755
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 10.127
And the computer reboots Tails 35.938
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.195
Given I enable persistence 10.397
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.280
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.835
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:7.357
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 8.073
# 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 25.944
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.064
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.462
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.416
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 8.185
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.910
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.406
And all notifications have disappeared 7.583
When I delete the persistent partition 2.845
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.952
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 7.626
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.366
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.665
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
46.781
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.726
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.720
And all notifications have disappeared 7.588
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.288
And all tps features are enabled 4.920
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.701
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 29.579
And I enable persistence 22.256
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.365
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.531
And persistence is enabled 4.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.000
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 6.982
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.514
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.871
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 7.830
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.655
When I enable persistence 10.147
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.361
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 7.707
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.770
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.043
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.305
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.150
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.874
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 7.544
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.377
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.693
And all notifications have disappeared 9.421
# 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" 0.198
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.286
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.242
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 7.711
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.667
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.590
When I log in to a new session 9.426
And all notifications have disappeared 8.228
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.319
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000