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test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access 9 30 Apr 2026, 18:21

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 20:36.527 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.191
And I update APT using apt 6.184
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.310
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.046
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 8.451
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.537
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.279
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 8.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.458
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.424
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.422
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.321
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.054
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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28.185
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 7.312
And the system is very low on memory 3.843
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.666
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 0.895
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.654
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.729
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 8.147
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
And all tps features are active 1.106
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.860
When I disable the first tps feature 2.466
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.366
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.419
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.914
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 7.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.398
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.959
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 7.322
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.542
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.891
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.879
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 7.243
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 15.782
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.230
When I write some files expected to persist 1.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.995
# 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" 12.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.679
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.546
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.457
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.607
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.962
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 21.397
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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35.881
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.673
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.979
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.544
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 8.550
When I enable persistence 12.428
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.629
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.650
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.488
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.305
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 8.820
And the computer reboots Tails 35.344
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.201
Given I enable persistence 6.976
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.205
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.741
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
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2:6.124
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 8.219
# 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 27.625
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.005
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.118
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.466
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 7.840
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.512
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.044
And all notifications have disappeared 7.960
When I delete the persistent partition 2.643
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.412
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 7.545
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.386
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.220
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.937
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 8.066
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.701
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.631
And all notifications have disappeared 8.021
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.239
And all tps features are enabled 1.010
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.256
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 29.584
And I enable persistence 18.872
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.541
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.619
And persistence is enabled 1.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.377
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 7.222
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.648
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.287
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 8.187
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.542
When I enable persistence 5.877
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.607
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 7.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.571
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.233
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.399
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.343
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.536
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.547
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.852
And all notifications have disappeared 8.357
# 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" 0.130
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.081
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.471
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.040
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 7.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.462
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.746
When I log in to a new session 9.417
And all notifications have disappeared 9.819
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.716
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000