Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 54 26 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 22:23.740 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.600
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.157
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.385
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.259
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.780
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 8.893
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.007
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.848
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 8.737
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.393
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.277
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 7.127
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.923
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
30.686
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.762
And the system is very low on memory 4.769
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.212
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.894
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.384
And I free up some memory 0.912
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.587
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.370
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 7.995
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.489
And all tps features are active 5.879
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.252
When I disable the first tps feature 2.610
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.362
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.971
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.286
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.042
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13.285
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 7.814
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.572
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 7.322
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 3.086
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.964
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.564
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 7.230
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.717
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.217
When I write some files expected to persist 1.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.594
# 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" 12.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.023
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 7.501
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.967
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.003
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.883
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.803
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
Tags: @product
42.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.376
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.676
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.003
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 8.383
When I enable persistence 19.625
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.632
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.654
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.344
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.515
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.711
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 6.373
And the computer reboots Tails 37.509
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.251
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 11.351
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.240
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.517
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:10.150
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.148
# 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 29.306
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.849
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.273
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
41.377
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 7.822
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.580
Then persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.933
And all notifications have disappeared 8.753
When I delete the persistent partition 2.762
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.047
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 7.557
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.157
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.927
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
54.075
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 7.794
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.731
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.632
And all notifications have disappeared 8.332
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.525
And all tps features are enabled 5.918
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.033
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 34.011
And I enable persistence 25.901
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.732
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.547
And persistence is enabled 5.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.011
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 6.978
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.449
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.758
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 8.889
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.675
When I enable persistence 11.178
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.052
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 7.913
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.102
When I try to enable persistence 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.832
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.863
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.311
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.967
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 7.409
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.134
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.586
And all notifications have disappeared 9.552
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.361
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.347
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.101
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 7.452
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.064
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.933
When I log in to a new session 10.368
And all notifications have disappeared 9.817
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.131
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000