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test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access 11 02 May 2026, 18:45

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 26:22.068 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.562
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:27.241
And I update APT using apt 6.159
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.567
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 8.619
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.177
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 22.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.194
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 9.102
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.468
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.853
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.448
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.777
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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46.245
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 7.464
And the system is very low on memory 19.947
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.588
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.133
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.099
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.437
And I free up some memory 0.798
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.728
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.859
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 21.132
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And all tps features are active 1.284
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.861
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.220
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.207
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.045
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.444
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 7.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.140
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.827
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.013
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 7.228
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.721
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.814
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.047
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 7.119
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.504
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.267
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.263
# 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" 12.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.727
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 7.227
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 17.654
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 17.991
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.521
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.588
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
1:5.823
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 8.797
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 34.405
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.416
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 8.274
When I enable persistence 28.718
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.578
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.563
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.170
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 7.839
And the computer reboots Tails 36.863
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.260
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.167
Given I enable persistence 7.119
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.203
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.227
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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2:48.010
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 20.468
# 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 42.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.028
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.740
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
51.395
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 7.990
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.727
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.396
And all notifications have disappeared 8.252
When I delete the persistent partition 2.648
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.945
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 enabled and logged in 8.057
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.653
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.956
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
51.479
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 8.046
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.563
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.046
And all notifications have disappeared 7.744
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.298
And all tps features are enabled 1.429
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.900
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 40.856
And I enable persistence 22.458
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.340
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.593
And persistence is enabled 1.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.856
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 7.025
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.298
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.062
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 8.490
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 47.718
When I enable persistence 5.933
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.977
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 7.889
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 25.762
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.332
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.425
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.371
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 7.725
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.715
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 11.868
And all notifications have disappeared 8.825
# 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" 0.386
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.464
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.184
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.210
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.167
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 7.559
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 20.002
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.582
When I log in to a new session 11.073
And all notifications have disappeared 9.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.521
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000