Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 51 23 Jul 2026, 14:38

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 23:11.047 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.815
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 1:21.578
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.039
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.864
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 9.032
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.659
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.545
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.776
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.411
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.563
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 7.331
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.287
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
31.915
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 7.574
And the system is very low on memory 4.774
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.058
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.539
And I free up some memory 0.954
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.645
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.010
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.798
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.402
And all tps features are active 5.572
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.089
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.432
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.963
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.046
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
13.777
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 7.886
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.084
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.075
When I enable the first tps feature 2.675
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.858
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 7.580
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 3.092
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.956
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.020
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 enabled and logged in 7.728
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 13.810
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.710
When I write some files expected to persist 1.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.983
# 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" 13.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.843
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 7.306
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 11.071
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.864
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.089
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.689
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
43.019
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.637
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.073
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.584
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 8.529
When I enable persistence 20.764
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.877
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.803
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.390
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.540
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.823
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.230
When I cold reboot the computer 7.759
And the computer reboots Tails 39.813
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.204
Given I enable persistence 11.418
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.401
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.191
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:16.602
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 7.975
# 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 31.884
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.483
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.657
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.599
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 8.435
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.542
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.802
And all notifications have disappeared 8.484
When I delete the persistent partition 2.807
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.467
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.836
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.980
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.364
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
58.719
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 8.438
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.052
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.411
And all notifications have disappeared 8.542
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.383
And all tps features are enabled 6.356
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.961
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 35.929
And I enable persistence 28.011
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.862
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
And persistence is enabled 5.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.207
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 8.020
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.541
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.507
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.109
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.715
When I enable persistence 11.463
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.097
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.994
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 8.467
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.713
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.671
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.346
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.882
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 7.846
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.853
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.169
And all notifications have disappeared 8.826
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.124
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.463
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.847
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 7.494
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.316
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.392
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.231
When I log in to a new session 11.099
And all notifications have disappeared 9.056
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.350
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000