Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 8 08 Jun 2026, 17:10

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 19:52.579 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.043
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 1:17.185
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.788
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.524
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 8.333
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.586
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.744
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 8.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.322
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.084
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:335 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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27.477
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.354
And the system is very low on memory 3.253
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.505
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.411
And I free up some memory 0.803
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.835
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.080
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 8.271
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And all tps features are active 1.208
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.935
When I disable the first tps feature 2.493
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.256
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.723
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.799
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.027
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12.430
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 enabled and logged in 7.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.565
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 7.049
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.459
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.882
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
35.569
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 7.130
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.529
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.267
When I write some files expected to persist 1.220
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.494
# 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" 11.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.805
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 7.175
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 8.573
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.293
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.540
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.366
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.401
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.132
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.050
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39.859
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 8.428
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.814
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:43.510
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 8.498
When I enable persistence 12.361
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.727
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.604
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.559
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.462
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
When I cold reboot the computer 8.774
And the computer reboots Tails 35.984
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.179
Given I enable persistence 6.930
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.312
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.887
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:8.647
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 enabled and logged in 7.430
# 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 27.568
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.271
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.830
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
Tags: @product
35.842
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 7.192
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.560
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.226
And all notifications have disappeared 7.753
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.703
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 7.338
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.295
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.805
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
40.072
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 7.366
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.238
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.047
And all notifications have disappeared 7.616
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.304
And all tps features are enabled 1.073
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.238
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 29.566
And I enable persistence 20.061
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.254
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 1.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.715
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 6.870
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.295
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.488
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 7.753
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.116
When I enable persistence 6.832
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.603
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 7.776
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.893
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.516
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.500
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.212
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 7.560
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.804
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 0.034
When I log in to a new session 11.494
And all notifications have disappeared 9.037
# 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" 0.170
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.397
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.329
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.442
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 7.529
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.077
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.356
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.613
When I log in to a new session 10.399
And all notifications have disappeared 9.617
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.754
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000