Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21742-tor-browser-15.0.21 3 01 Sep 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 25:3.975 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:36.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.706
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.742
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.240
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.565
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.270
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.686
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.221
And persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.459
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.918
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.575
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.472
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.717
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
32.305
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.617
And the system is very low on memory 5.030
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.285
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.799
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.430
And I free up some memory 0.513
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.451
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.791
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.166
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And all tps features are active 9.150
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.987
When I disable the first tps feature 2.608
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.521
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.408
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.886
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
13.926
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.562
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.389
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 enabled and logged in 8.646
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.637
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.875
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.865
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.062
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.952
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.776
When I write some files expected to persist 1.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.479
# 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" 11.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.388
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.423
And the network is plugged 0.101
And Tor is ready 10.891
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.510
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.814
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.640
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.213
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
Tags: @product
39.994
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.067
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.689
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:58.888
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.253
When I enable persistence 24.764
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.735
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.854
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.450
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.290
# 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 22.650
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 6.915
And the computer reboots Tails 34.761
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 14.456
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.175
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
2:20.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.113
# 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 34.250
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.868
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
42.651
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.010
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.541
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.600
And all notifications have disappeared 9.365
When I delete the persistent partition 2.681
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.694
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.568
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.023
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.824
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:2.791
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.632
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.714
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.503
And all notifications have disappeared 8.252
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.499
And all tps features are enabled 10.452
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.887
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 2:11.230
And I enable persistence 32.501
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.300
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.602
And persistence is enabled 9.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.955
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
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 7.987
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.386
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.343
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.632
When I enable persistence 15.900
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.239
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.195
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.094
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.245
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.081
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.765
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.185
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.582
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.092
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 9.013
And all notifications have disappeared 8.083
# 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" 0.262
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.200
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.145
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.713
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.389
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.196
When I log in to a new session 8.535
And all notifications have disappeared 7.874
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.401
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000