Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21318-tor-browser-16.0 9 09 Jun 2026, 08:02

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 20:29.607 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.364
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 1:18.819
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.402
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.252
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.619
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.345
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.579
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.262
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.519
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 8.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.462
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.993
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.288
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 7.276
And the system is very low on memory 4.015
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.450
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.390
And I free up some memory 0.853
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.986
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.169
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 8.081
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 1.090
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.475
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.194
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.380
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.527
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.801
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 7.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
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 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.075
When I enable the first tps feature 2.418
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.576
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 7.109
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.462
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.829
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.305
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 39.068
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.184
When I write some files expected to persist 1.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.287
# 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" 12.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.863
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 7.077
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.902
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.261
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.837
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.099
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.057
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38.411
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 8.279
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.280
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:40.832
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 8.191
When I enable persistence 12.336
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.737
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.387
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.366
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.478
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.052
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
When I cold reboot the computer 6.321
And the computer reboots Tails 35.723
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.233
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
Given I enable persistence 7.079
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.249
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.880
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:9.786
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 8.062
# 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 27.716
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.270
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.287
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
37.876
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 8.183
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.749
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.711
And all notifications have disappeared 7.966
When I delete the persistent partition 2.812
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.811
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 7.630
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.785
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.077
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
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40.189
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 8.005
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.538
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.094
And all notifications have disappeared 7.851
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.276
And all tps features are enabled 1.013
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:3.184
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 30.977
And I enable persistence 19.833
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.249
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.597
And persistence is enabled 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.638
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 6.842
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.288
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.249
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 8.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.761
When I enable persistence 6.597
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.965
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 8.087
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.621
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.092
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.356
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.243
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.047
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 7.343
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.121
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.854
And all notifications have disappeared 8.681
# 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" 0.198
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.223
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.287
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.226
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 7.644
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.233
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.820
When I log in to a new session 9.541
And all notifications have disappeared 8.426
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.301
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000