Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21711-tor-browser-140.14.0esr 1 13 Aug 2026, 18:11

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 24:0.281 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:35.147
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 1:20.733
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.472
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.261
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.453
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 8.974
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.134
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.223
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.068
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 8.787
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.985
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 5.506
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.112
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
31.112
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.106
And the system is very low on memory 4.806
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.323
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.821
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.137
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.443
And I free up some memory 0.545
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.885
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.001
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 22.264
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And all tps features are active 8.553
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.532
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.450
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.741
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
13.406
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 8.063
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.544
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.054
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 8.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 3.031
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.764
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.832
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 8.065
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 13.152
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.550
When I write some files expected to persist 1.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.506
# 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" 11.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.673
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 7.977
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.250
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 5.388
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.563
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.734
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
40.189
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 8.781
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 13.450
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.802
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 8.832
When I enable persistence 22.369
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.691
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.950
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.144
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.610
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.892
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 5.944
And the computer reboots Tails 35.171
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.173
Given I enable persistence 14.616
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.115
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:11.101
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 8.890
# 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 28.300
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.963
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.843
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.417
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 8.131
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.347
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.313
And all notifications have disappeared 8.470
When I delete the persistent partition 2.800
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.728
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 7.772
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.401
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.151
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
57.699
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 7.880
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.357
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.268
And all notifications have disappeared 8.015
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.252
And all tps features are enabled 7.963
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.815
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
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 2:1.800
And I enable persistence 28.233
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.889
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.504
And persistence is enabled 8.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.661
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 7.773
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.377
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.051
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 7.995
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.749
When I enable persistence 13.804
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.834
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 20.981
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.356
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.711
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.377
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.392
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.230
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.514
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 8.063
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.222
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 8.640
And all notifications have disappeared 7.467
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.123
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.239
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.154
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.714
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 8.210
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.107
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.293
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.669
When I log in to a new session 9.607
And all notifications have disappeared 7.391
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.176
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000