Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 63 04 Aug 2026, 08:33

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 21:32.930 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.334
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 1:19.338
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.940
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.939
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 8.329
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.668
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.229
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.250
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 8.406
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.153
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.461
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.240
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.061
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 7.433
And the system is very low on memory 4.391
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.262
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.654
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.543
And I free up some memory 0.885
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.715
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.814
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 7.808
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
And all tps features are active 5.628
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.103
When I disable the first tps feature 2.565
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.769
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.430
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
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12.644
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 7.187
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.129
When I disable the first tps feature 2.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.447
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.018
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 7.167
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.542
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.120
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.711
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 7.405
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 12.631
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.321
When I write some files expected to persist 1.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.428
# 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" 12.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.143
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 7.167
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.871
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.582
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.219
And I capture all network traffic 0.026
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.393
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.431
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.133
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.093
Tags: @product
42.772
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 8.274
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.121
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.761
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.460
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 8.097
When I enable persistence 19.542
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.991
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.728
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.564
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.658
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
When I cold reboot the computer 6.434
And the computer reboots Tails 36.551
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.262
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
Given I enable persistence 10.487
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.778
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.618
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 7.964
# 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 28.549
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.580
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.742
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
39.540
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.763
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.006
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.344
And all notifications have disappeared 8.123
When I delete the persistent partition 2.801
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.164
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 7.744
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And 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 1:5.750
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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51.438
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 7.500
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.690
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.733
And all notifications have disappeared 7.904
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 5.886
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.856
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 34.069
And I enable persistence 25.671
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.920
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.764
And persistence is enabled 5.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.140
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 7.139
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.527
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.109
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 7.776
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.190
When I enable persistence 11.209
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.505
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 7.192
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.671
When I try to enable persistence 1.330
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.620
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.295
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.676
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 7.753
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.614
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.889
And all notifications have disappeared 8.862
# 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" 0.192
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.437
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.207
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.497
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.725
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.331
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.934
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.363
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.113
When I log in to a new session 9.352
And all notifications have disappeared 9.291
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.446
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000