Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 38 11 Jul 2026, 08:08

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 21:28.674 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.786
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 1:18.130
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.624
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.226
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.449
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 8.416
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.663
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.233
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.044
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 8.409
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.455
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.737
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.735
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
28.348
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 7.313
And the system is very low on memory 3.624
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.337
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.397
And I free up some memory 0.789
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.557
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.965
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 8.056
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 5.206
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.971
When I disable the first tps feature 2.454
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.847
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.303
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.202
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.522
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 7.100
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.508
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 7.043
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.452
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.856
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.865
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 7.305
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.536
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.178
When I write some files expected to persist 1.258
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.434
# 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" 12.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.516
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 7.287
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.440
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.400
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.971
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.650
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
Tags: @product
40.689
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 8.568
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.405
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.228
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 8.294
When I enable persistence 16.513
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.775
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.639
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.309
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.597
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.870
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 10.199
And the computer reboots Tails 36.179
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.163
Given I enable persistence 10.651
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.230
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.858
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:15.054
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 8.304
# 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 28.945
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.423
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.882
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
37.086
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 7.960
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.237
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.301
And all notifications have disappeared 7.522
When I delete the persistent partition 2.643
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.383
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 enabled and logged in 7.510
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.286
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.322
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
50.055
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 8.082
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.699
And all notifications have disappeared 7.977
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.232
And all tps features are enabled 4.864
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.828
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.342
And I enable persistence 23.992
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.290
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And persistence is enabled 5.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.424
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 7.003
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.817
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.975
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 8.584
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.425
When I enable persistence 11.105
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.021
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 7.819
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.691
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.430
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.325
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.040
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 7.537
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.193
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.549
And all notifications have disappeared 9.051
# 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" 0.248
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.471
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.194
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.356
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.880
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 7.493
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.816
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.413
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.206
When I log in to a new session 9.875
And all notifications have disappeared 8.826
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.318
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000