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test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access 2 20 Apr 2026, 22:16

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 26:42.341 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:28.266
And I update APT using apt 8.490
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.805
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.323
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.386
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 22.042
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.886
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.026
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.240
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.393
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.301
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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41.656
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.636
And the system is very low on memory 15.795
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.659
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.040
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.110
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.363
And I free up some memory 0.924
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.035
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.889
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.967
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.581
And all tps features are active 1.220
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.004
When I disable the first tps feature 2.733
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.453
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.839
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.697
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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13.583
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.870
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 2.767
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.656
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.883
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.672
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.193
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 42.364
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.256
When I write some files expected to persist 1.391
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.715
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.442
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.876
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 41.446
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.034
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.493
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 22.852
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
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1:1.585
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.113
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.225
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.819
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.985
When I enable persistence 25.449
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.360
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.721
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.437
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.293
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.792
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
When I cold reboot the computer 10.267
And the computer reboots Tails 39.047
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.374
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.238
Given I enable persistence 7.679
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.264
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.950
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:20.015
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.423
# 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 34.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.080
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.025
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
51.541
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.909
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.484
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.309
And all notifications have disappeared 8.740
When I delete the persistent partition 2.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.360
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.875
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.661
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.557
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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57.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.805
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 22.807
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.550
And all notifications have disappeared 8.356
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 1.352
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.509
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 37.525
And I enable persistence 25.407
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.122
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.822
And persistence is enabled 1.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.866
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.343
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.974
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 21.880
When I enable persistence 8.337
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.584
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.007
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.411
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.363
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.278
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.085
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.661
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.752
And all notifications have disappeared 10.057
# 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" 0.171
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.529
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.221
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.388
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.681
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.684
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.469
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.337
When I log in to a new session 11.540
And all notifications have disappeared 9.576
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.066
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000