Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 37 10 Jul 2026, 08:03

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 20:55.328 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.623
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 1:16.588
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.831
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.312
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.858
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 8.265
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.053
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.253
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.344
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.329
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.466
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 5.417
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.103
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 7.334
And the system is very low on memory 3.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.233
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.557
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.351
And I free up some memory 0.754
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.421
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.098
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 7.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And all tps features are active 4.920
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.909
When I disable the first tps feature 2.865
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.686
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.506
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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12.708
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 7.246
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.581
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.614
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 7.086
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.468
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.889
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.357
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 6.935
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.649
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.736
When I write some files expected to persist 1.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.412
# 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" 11.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.405
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 7.236
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.681
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.674
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.925
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.176
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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37.471
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 8.562
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 12.794
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.894
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 8.563
When I enable persistence 16.625
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.702
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.382
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.368
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 9.939
And the computer reboots Tails 34.585
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
Given I enable persistence 10.382
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.112
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.296
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.074
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:11.665
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 7.844
# 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 26.025
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.347
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.917
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
37.156
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 7.535
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.660
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.244
And all notifications have disappeared 7.557
When I delete the persistent partition 2.698
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.289
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 7.503
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.372
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.136
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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49.518
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 7.493
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.249
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.587
And all notifications have disappeared 7.591
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.238
And all tps features are enabled 4.898
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:9.128
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 29.298
And I enable persistence 23.876
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.021
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.513
And persistence is enabled 5.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.246
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.035
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.666
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.505
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 7.898
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.260
When I enable persistence 9.876
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.383
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 7.637
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.397
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.349
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.074
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 7.169
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.504
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 10.317
And all notifications have disappeared 9.314
# 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" 0.132
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.073
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.187
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.217
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.876
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 7.254
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.875
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.438
When I log in to a new session 11.010
And all notifications have disappeared 7.760
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.235
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000