Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21619-tor-browser-15.0.16 2 12 Jun 2026, 09:50

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 22:32.977 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.205
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.665
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.028
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.315
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.230
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.824
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.216
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.235
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.641
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 21.938
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.162
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.042
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.809
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
29.389
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.122
And the system is very low on memory 3.438
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.179
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.801
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.385
And I free up some memory 1.312
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.995
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.741
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 5.418
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.085
When I disable the first tps feature 2.534
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.342
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.240
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.493
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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13.477
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.092
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.534
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.160
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.655
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.933
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.412
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.875
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.368
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.195
When I write some files expected to persist 1.261
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.129
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.797
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.614
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.790
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.493
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.745
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.080
Tags: @product
41.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.752
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.107
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.146
When I enable persistence 16.403
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.932
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.743
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.364
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 9.340
And the computer reboots Tails 37.447
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.183
Given I enable persistence 10.694
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.228
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.131
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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2:10.912
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.743
# 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 27.705
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.381
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.474
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.066
Tags: @product
40.380
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.033
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.689
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.791
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.626
And all notifications have disappeared 7.953
When I delete the persistent partition 2.808
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.451
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.910
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.499
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.741
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
Tags: @product
52.303
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.075
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.766
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.942
And all notifications have disappeared 7.660
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.280
And all tps features are enabled 5.785
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.324
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
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 32.733
And I enable persistence 23.462
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.084
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.595
And persistence is enabled 6.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.981
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
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 7.458
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.017
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.040
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.696
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.734
When I enable persistence 10.841
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.477
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.175
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.078
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.380
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.234
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.877
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.661
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I log in to a new session 11.993
And all notifications have disappeared 9.387
# 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" 0.164
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.576
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.233
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.630
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.011
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.631
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.372
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.530
When I log in to a new session 11.097
And all notifications have disappeared 10.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.053
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000