Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 73 16 Aug 2026, 08:00

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 22:29.783 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.536
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 1:16.656
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.840
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.404
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.614
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 8.209
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.206
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.794
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 8.514
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.567
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.179
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.942
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.144
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
29.729
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 logged in 7.982
And the system is very low on memory 4.511
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.494
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.348
And I free up some memory 0.416
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.673
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.395
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 8.227
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And all tps features are active 7.390
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.687
When I disable the first tps feature 2.524
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.881
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.439
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.299
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
26.167
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 20.757
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.112
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 7.620
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.429
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.911
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.067
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 7.577
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.128
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.986
When I write some files expected to persist 1.024
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.214
# 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" 11.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.644
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.572
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 7.970
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.282
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.024
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 12.019
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.349
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product
37.300
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 8.309
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.113
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.383
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.631
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 8.464
When I enable persistence 21.373
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.449
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.287
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.325
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.309
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.535
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.561
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.102
When I cold reboot the computer 5.727
And the computer reboots Tails 31.702
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.264
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 12.407
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.254
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.437
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:6.422
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 8.258
# 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 29.004
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.142
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.196
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.901
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 8.183
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.098
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.661
And all notifications have disappeared 8.016
When I delete the persistent partition 2.623
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.137
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 7.800
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.313
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.778
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
55.161
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 8.139
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.380
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.180
And all notifications have disappeared 8.411
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.224
And all tps features are enabled 7.276
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.473
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 1:58.679
And I enable persistence 25.512
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.916
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.541
And persistence is enabled 7.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.097
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 7.416
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.170
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.067
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 8.790
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.508
When I enable persistence 12.641
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.303
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 8.126
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.128
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.089
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.145
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.102
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.369
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 8.151
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.461
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.082
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.768
And all notifications have disappeared 7.342
# 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" 0.236
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.074
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.053
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.853
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 8.219
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.003
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.250
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.369
When I log in to a new session 7.555
And all notifications have disappeared 8.344
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.088
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000