Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 53 25 Jul 2026, 08:12

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 20:57.469 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.675
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 1:18.495
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.132
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.272
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.854
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 8.096
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.087
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.241
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.134
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 8.365
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.386
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.395
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.278
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073
Tags: @product
28.770
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 7.286
And the system is very low on memory 4.189
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.231
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.716
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.419
And I free up some memory 0.745
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.022
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.432
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 7.718
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
And all tps features are active 4.964
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.509
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.760
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.957
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.641
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
12.480
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 7.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.040
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.607
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 7.073
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.471
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.663
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 7.134
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 8.777
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.089
When I write some files expected to persist 1.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.439
# 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" 12.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.255
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 7.364
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.043
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.412
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.692
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.971
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
40.528
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 8.183
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.214
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.323
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 8.398
When I enable persistence 19.236
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.541
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.371
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.318
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.596
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.215
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 6.119
And the computer reboots Tails 35.423
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.175
Given I enable persistence 10.288
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.211
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.553
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:7.056
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 7.417
# 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 29.294
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.484
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.788
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
37.501
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 7.354
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.909
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.993
And all notifications have disappeared 8.107
When I delete the persistent partition 2.669
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.422
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 7.236
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.802
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.097
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
49.333
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 7.142
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.897
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.812
And all notifications have disappeared 7.970
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.303
And all tps features are enabled 4.960
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.656
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 31.367
And I enable persistence 24.377
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.406
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.572
And persistence is enabled 4.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
24.887
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 6.970
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.390
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.108
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 7.894
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.365
When I enable persistence 10.677
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.584
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 7.183
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.184
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.264
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.355
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.588
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 7.272
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.235
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.334
And all notifications have disappeared 8.574
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.383
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.150
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.269
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.602
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 7.210
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.903
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.345
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.770
When I log in to a new session 8.913
And all notifications have disappeared 9.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.337
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000