Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 5 06 Jun 2026, 07:59

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 19:41.973 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.606
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.580
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.974
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.242
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.442
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.306
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.424
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.731
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.274
And the system is very low on memory 3.818
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.522
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.322
And I free up some memory 0.819
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.177
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.428
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.039
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And all tps features are active 1.156
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.856
When I disable the first tps feature 2.543
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.074
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.269
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.013
Tags: @product
12.834
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.576
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
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 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.486
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.827
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
42.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.347
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 13.059
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.163
When I write some files expected to persist 1.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.318
# 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" 11.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.020
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.031
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.631
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.349
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.900
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.455
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.331
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
Tags: @product
37.947
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.420
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.126
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.412
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:39.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.466
When I enable persistence 12.688
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.525
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.317
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.278
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.479
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.264
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 6.268
And the computer reboots Tails 35.785
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.280
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.188
Given I enable persistence 6.589
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.212
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.967
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:4.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.643
# 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 26.298
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.237
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.007
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product
35.733
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.322
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.015
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.553
And all notifications have disappeared 7.762
When I delete the persistent partition 2.675
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.592
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.122
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.039
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.285
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.946
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
39.173
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.466
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.524
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.859
And all notifications have disappeared 7.563
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.305
And all tps features are enabled 1.080
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 29.469
And I enable persistence 19.564
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.957
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is enabled 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 6.911
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.683
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.204
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.161
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.859
When I enable persistence 6.557
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.487
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.502
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.586
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.388
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.352
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.206
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.461
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.682
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.386
And all notifications have disappeared 9.002
# 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" 0.156
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.380
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.221
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.314
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.077
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.698
When I log in to a new session 10.698
And all notifications have disappeared 8.038
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.468
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000