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test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access 8 29 Apr 2026, 18:20

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 20:48.811 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.755
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.547
And I update APT using apt 7.115
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.988
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 8.634
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.539
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.163
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.586
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.369
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.447
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.731
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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27.410
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.256
And the system is very low on memory 3.603
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.458
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.764
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.638
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.967
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 8.326
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
And all tps features are active 1.417
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.874
When I disable the first tps feature 2.482
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.967
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.631
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.840
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.931
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 enabled and logged in 7.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.526
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.565
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.900
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 7.340
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.537
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.849
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.288
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 7.223
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.907
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.300
When I write some files expected to persist 1.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.935
# 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" 11.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:14.883
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 7.237
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 16.028
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.843
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.563
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 23.374
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.448
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
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38.254
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.532
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 13.812
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.439
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 8.558
When I enable persistence 14.119
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.402
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.717
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.364
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.579
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.291
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 6.171
And the computer reboots Tails 35.888
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
Given I enable persistence 6.909
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.095
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.983
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:9.790
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 enabled and logged in 8.075
# 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 28.028
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.300
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.875
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
37.742
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 7.919
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.141
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.685
And all notifications have disappeared 7.854
When I delete the persistent partition 2.668
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.554
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 7.493
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.217
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.563
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
38.975
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 7.553
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.975
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.875
And all notifications have disappeared 8.001
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 0.999
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.481
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.010
And I enable persistence 19.620
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.865
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.528
And persistence is enabled 1.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.134
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.101
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.486
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.660
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.671
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.743
When I enable persistence 6.650
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.849
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.309
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.626
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.034
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.256
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.945
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.346
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.159
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.176
And all notifications have disappeared 10.056
# 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" 0.139
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.461
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.167
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.244
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.692
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 7.677
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.338
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.685
When I log in to a new session 9.445
And all notifications have disappeared 8.971
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.294
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000