Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_torbrowser-launcher-merge-upstream-2026-08 2 08 Aug 2026, 05:38

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 22:39.932 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.368
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.622
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.194
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.660
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 8.233
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.001
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 8.326
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.207
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.330
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.213
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.564
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.860
And the system is very low on memory 4.428
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.160
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.261
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.394
And I free up some memory 0.475
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.827
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.132
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 8.284
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 7.989
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.468
When I disable the first tps feature 2.430
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.465
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.630
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.371
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
13.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.914
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.399
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.111
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 7.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.530
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.902
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.767
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 7.558
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.423
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.580
When I write some files expected to persist 0.934
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.133
# 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" 11.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.416
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 20.556
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 8.120
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.167
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.981
And I capture all network traffic 0.013
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.907
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.356
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.070
Tags: @product
38.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.212
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.388
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.743
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 21.140
When I enable persistence 22.150
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.977
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.874
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.206
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.129
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.454
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.253
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.111
When I cold reboot the computer 5.768
And the computer reboots Tails 32.615
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.104
Given I enable persistence 12.548
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.615
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:14.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.050
# 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 26.688
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.183
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.783
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
37.606
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.022
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.601
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.493
And all notifications have disappeared 7.540
When I delete the persistent partition 2.675
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.478
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 7.716
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.162
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.392
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
54.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.103
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.799
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.379
And all notifications have disappeared 8.434
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.310
And all tps features are enabled 7.776
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.908
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 1:55.389
And I enable persistence 25.588
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.599
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.495
And persistence is enabled 7.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.026
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 7.433
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.072
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.504
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 8.224
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.768
When I enable persistence 11.575
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.523
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 7.852
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.611
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.175
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.205
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.596
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 7.672
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.465
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 8.427
And all notifications have disappeared 7.182
# 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" 0.166
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.106
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.192
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.966
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.613
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 7.814
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.170
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.231
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.387
When I log in to a new session 7.651
And all notifications have disappeared 6.320
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.049
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000