Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 74 17 Aug 2026, 07:51

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 22:31.280 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.642
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 1:18.425
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.396
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.191
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.754
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 8.276
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.023
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.204
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.495
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 8.389
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.456
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.399
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product
28.853
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.988
And the system is very low on memory 4.741
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.123
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.341
And I free up some memory 0.434
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.967
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.574
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 8.169
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
And all tps features are active 7.391
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.904
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.603
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.613
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.393
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.602
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 7.769
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.128
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 1.921
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.041
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.275
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 7.807
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.440
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.853
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.551
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 7.812
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 9.782
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.733
When I write some files expected to persist 1.021
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.296
# 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" 10.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.288
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 7.485
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.447
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.522
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.525
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.460
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.109
Tags: @product
38.081
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 8.635
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.650
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.294
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 21.407
When I enable persistence 21.369
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.667
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.844
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.527
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.008
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
When I cold reboot the computer 5.865
And the computer reboots Tails 32.591
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.174
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.153
Given I enable persistence 13.126
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.333
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.269
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:5.061
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.342
# 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 28.994
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.130
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.768
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
38.205
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 8.644
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.069
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.736
And all notifications have disappeared 7.734
When I delete the persistent partition 2.694
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.056
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 8.043
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.186
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.583
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
53.868
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 8.428
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.828
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.256
And all notifications have disappeared 8.088
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 7.386
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.077
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 1:57.624
And I enable persistence 25.345
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.432
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.511
And persistence is enabled 7.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.193
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 7.347
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.316
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.849
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 8.484
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.486
When I enable persistence 12.327
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.329
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 8.312
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.813
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.603
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.087
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.102
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.087
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.677
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 7.782
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.989
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.075
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 7.878
And all notifications have disappeared 7.677
# 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" 0.126
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.135
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.037
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.546
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 7.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.010
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.233
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 1.989
When I log in to a new session 7.091
And all notifications have disappeared 7.526
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.054
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000