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test_Tails_ISO_21523-21524-unsafe-browser-onionshare-no-dbus-access 10 01 May 2026, 18:19

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 20:50.583 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.889
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 1:16.928
And I update APT using apt 5.866
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.328
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 8.426
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.220
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.221
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.043
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 logged in 8.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.029
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.416
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.343
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.275
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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27.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.386
And the system is very low on memory 3.576
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.535
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.130
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.544
And I free up some memory 0.792
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.785
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.305
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 8.022
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And all tps features are active 1.227
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.493
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.327
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.498
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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12.732
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 7.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.681
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 7.167
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.542
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.798
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.261
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 7.078
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.407
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.214
When I write some files expected to persist 1.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.590
# 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" 11.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.227
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 7.033
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 15.942
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 19.873
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.361
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 21.304
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
38.850
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.471
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.981
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.672
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 8.373
When I enable persistence 12.367
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.492
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.241
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.426
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.538
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.706
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 10.069
And the computer reboots Tails 36.330
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.251
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.184
Given I enable persistence 6.865
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.113
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.240
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.891
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:8.451
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 8.232
# 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 26.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.511
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.750
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
35.897
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 7.971
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.138
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.957
And all notifications have disappeared 7.573
When I delete the persistent partition 2.805
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.425
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 7.623
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.260
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.216
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.713
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 7.683
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.789
And all notifications have disappeared 7.520
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 0.944
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.205
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 29.438
And I enable persistence 19.357
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.167
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.522
And persistence is enabled 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.431
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.138
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.797
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.757
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 7.867
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.492
When I enable persistence 6.701
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.133
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 7.321
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.425
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.586
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.237
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.149
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.777
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 7.488
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.140
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.938
And all notifications have disappeared 8.467
# 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" 0.192
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.085
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.223
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.835
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 7.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.487
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.304
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.032
When I log in to a new session 9.983
And all notifications have disappeared 8.305
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.315
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000