Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21742-tor-browser-15.0.21 4 01 Sep 2026, 20:27

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 24:10.422 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:32.910
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 1:18.756
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.215
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.953
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 9.037
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.152
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.399
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.875
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.106
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
30.441
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 8.565
And the system is very low on memory 4.412
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.241
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.332
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.218
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.440
And I free up some memory 0.556
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.617
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.316
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 8.790
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
And all tps features are active 8.751
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.851
When I disable the first tps feature 2.486
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.974
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.015
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.003
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
13.547
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 8.079
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.606
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.052
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.866
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.719
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 7.884
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 10.085
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.703
When I write some files expected to persist 1.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.375
# 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" 11.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.854
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 8.260
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 12.744
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.548
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.656
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.765
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.342
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
Tags: @product
37.596
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.489
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.150
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.513
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:57.029
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 8.611
When I enable persistence 22.927
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.991
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.044
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.398
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.193
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.525
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.671
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 5.950
And the computer reboots Tails 34.721
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
Given I enable persistence 15.787
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.101
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.214
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.146
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:21.432
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 8.848
# 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 31.778
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.893
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.738
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
40.540
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 8.266
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.655
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.350
And all notifications have disappeared 9.119
When I delete the persistent partition 2.750
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.190
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.945
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.231
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.745
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.069
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 8.180
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.297
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.984
And all notifications have disappeared 8.312
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.261
And all tps features are enabled 9.398
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.366
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:11.703
And I enable persistence 29.997
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.099
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.606
And persistence is enabled 10.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.139
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 7.719
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.851
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.973
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.252
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.642
When I enable persistence 13.961
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.133
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 8.248
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.354
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.163
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.287
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 8.372
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.436
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.116
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I log in to a new session 9.051
And all notifications have disappeared 6.972
# 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" 0.187
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.104
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.371
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.413
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.773
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 8.317
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.370
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.350
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.109
When I log in to a new session 8.882
And all notifications have disappeared 7.687
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.916
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000