Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 67 10 Aug 2026, 08:04

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 23:12.279 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.203
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 1:17.984
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.204
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.386
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.647
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 8.937
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.867
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.644
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 8.628
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.788
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.664
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.828
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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30.111
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 8.316
And the system is very low on memory 4.800
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.156
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.604
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.086
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.455
And I free up some memory 0.620
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.001
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.605
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 8.360
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And all tps features are active 8.229
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.666
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.927
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.447
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.911
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.509
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 8.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.497
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 7.708
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.534
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.070
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.913
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 7.647
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 8.907
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.702
When I write some files expected to persist 0.927
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.306
# 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" 11.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.603
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 7.734
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.598
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.421
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.023
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 19.107
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.314
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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37.163
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 8.518
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 12.842
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.764
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 9.017
When I enable persistence 22.435
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.786
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.750
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.399
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.301
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.571
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.015
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
When I cold reboot the computer 5.800
And the computer reboots Tails 33.798
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.289
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.111
Given I enable persistence 12.780
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.368
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.020
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:8.428
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 8.171
# 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 31.429
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.177
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.901
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.382
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 8.645
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.849
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.232
And all notifications have disappeared 8.469
When I delete the persistent partition 2.853
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.461
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 7.933
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.238
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.949
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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58.222
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 8.256
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.428
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.007
And all notifications have disappeared 7.961
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 9.709
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.835
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 2:2.941
And I enable persistence 25.962
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.308
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.438
And persistence is enabled 8.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.797
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 7.485
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.750
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.733
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 8.977
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.384
When I enable persistence 14.028
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.820
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 8.569
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.778
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.397
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.268
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.876
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 8.066
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.117
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.910
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 9.121
And all notifications have disappeared 8.047
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.044
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.056
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.254
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.877
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.247
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.450
When I log in to a new session 8.015
And all notifications have disappeared 6.959
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.141
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000