Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 7 08 Jun 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 19:55.384 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.624
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.715
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.293
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.772
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.739
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.357
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.707
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.303
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.680
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.225
And the system is very low on memory 3.896
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.373
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.387
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.965
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.903
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And all tps features are active 1.137
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.153
When I disable the first tps feature 2.533
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.411
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.379
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.054
Tags: @product
12.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.692
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.119
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.478
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.887
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
42.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.051
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.982
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.165
When I write some files expected to persist 1.218
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.283
# 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" 12.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.449
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.006
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.616
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 9.446
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.245
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.441
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.348
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.072
Tags: @product
38.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.117
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.940
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:41.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.340
When I enable persistence 12.624
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.073
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.457
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.242
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.587
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 6.312
And the computer reboots Tails 36.165
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.266
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.183
Given I enable persistence 6.945
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.237
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.121
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:6.597
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.945
# 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 28.743
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.371
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.651
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.022
Tags: @product
35.714
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.443
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.251
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.231
And all notifications have disappeared 7.631
When I delete the persistent partition 2.732
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.748
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.039
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.063
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.237
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.218
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.557
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.378
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.038
And all notifications have disappeared 7.579
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.275
And all tps features are enabled 1.069
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 29.939
And I enable persistence 20.119
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.579
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.552
And persistence is enabled 1.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.077
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.941
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.258
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.840
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.822
When I enable persistence 6.822
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.437
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.002
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.898
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.339
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.137
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.646
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.459
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.209
And all notifications have disappeared 8.958
# 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" 0.155
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.076
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.144
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.276
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.406
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.592
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.326
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.299
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.015
When I log in to a new session 10.830
And all notifications have disappeared 8.002
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.300
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000