Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_torbrowser-launcher-merge-upstream-2026-08 1 06 Aug 2026, 17:32

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 23:4.536 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.881
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 1:17.482
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.529
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.220
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.398
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 8.541
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.582
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.209
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.324
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 8.266
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.176
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.131
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.084
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.186
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.769
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 7.942
And the system is very low on memory 4.875
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.369
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.392
And I free up some memory 0.445
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.415
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.555
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 Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And all tps features are active 7.650
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.632
When I disable the first tps feature 2.488
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.254
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.206
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.737
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
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13.248
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 7.928
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.015
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 7.557
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.496
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.801
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.025
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 7.714
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 9.070
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.898
When I write some files expected to persist 0.903
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.231
# 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" 11.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.408
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 7.670
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 8.044
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.472
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.154
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 10.302
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.057
Tags: @product
36.421
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.184
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.436
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.262
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 8.318
When I enable persistence 21.952
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.610
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.977
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.425
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.308
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.477
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.310
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.097
When I cold reboot the computer 6.005
And the computer reboots Tails 31.633
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.182
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.123
Given I enable persistence 12.030
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.282
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.335
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:2.842
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 8.093
# 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 27.709
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.496
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.331
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
36.792
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 8.021
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.511
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.520
And all notifications have disappeared 7.736
When I delete the persistent partition 2.596
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.940
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 7.778
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.721
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
53.458
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 7.845
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.015
And all notifications have disappeared 8.185
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 7.524
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:34.590
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 2:48.324
And I enable persistence 28.486
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.274
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.440
And persistence is enabled 10.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.515
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 7.487
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.633
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.378
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 8.392
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.731
When I enable persistence 14.280
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.583
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 7.981
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.501
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.167
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.163
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 7.797
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.295
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.126
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 7.620
And all notifications have disappeared 6.825
# 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" 0.173
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.083
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.254
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.979
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.960
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 8.047
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.918
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.226
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.297
When I log in to a new session 6.935
And all notifications have disappeared 7.445
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.163
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000