Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21619-tor-browser-15.0.16 1 11 Jun 2026, 15:10

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 23:10.171 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.047
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.074
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.424
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.444
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.765
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.665
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.369
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.671
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.473
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.380
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.821
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.053
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.363
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
30.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.810
And the system is very low on memory 3.569
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.146
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.131
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 1.000
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.608
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.531
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 5.819
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.366
When I disable the first tps feature 3.076
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.024
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.905
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.981
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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13.491
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.878
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.665
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.991
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.004
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.699
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.084
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.922
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.745
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.102
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.774
When I write some files expected to persist 1.354
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.444
# 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" 12.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.060
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.270
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.114
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.236
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.255
And I capture all network traffic 0.057
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.937
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.091
Tags: @product
42.680
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.187
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.958
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.616
When I enable persistence 17.943
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.927
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.977
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.409
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.587
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.872
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.217
When I cold reboot the computer 6.718
And the computer reboots Tails 40.014
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
Given I enable persistence 13.581
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.255
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.443
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
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2:17.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.037
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.703
# 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 25.374
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.799
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.134
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
42.686
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.986
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.268
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.975
And all notifications have disappeared 7.972
When I delete the persistent partition 2.843
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.453
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.077
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.554
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
53.138
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.525
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.861
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.422
And all notifications have disappeared 7.802
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.425
And all tps features are enabled 6.264
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.730
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
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 33.396
And I enable persistence 25.027
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.357
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.675
And persistence is enabled 6.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.730
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.050
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 7.698
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.492
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.652
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.383
When I enable persistence 11.884
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.075
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.029
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.296
When I try to enable persistence 1.356
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.207
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.393
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.177
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.419
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.517
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.905
And all notifications have disappeared 9.239
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.140
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.269
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.815
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.348
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.475
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.694
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.660
When I log in to a new session 12.126
And all notifications have disappeared 8.792
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.397
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000