Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 4 21 Aug 2026, 16:16

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 95 0 0 0 0 95 12 0 12 9:29.312 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Hardware failures
In order to update my failing hardware before I lose data As a Tails user I want to be warned about hardware failures
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.451
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.102
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.741
Then the computer boots Tails 24.166
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.658
Then the computer boots Tails 23.602
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.684
Then the computer boots Tails 21.576
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
27.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.090
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.566
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.177
Then I see a disk failure message 1.332
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.359
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.100
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.892
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.310
Then I see a disk failure message 1.353
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.850
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.091
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.905
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.391
Then I see a disk failure message 1.394
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.397
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 9.584
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.211
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.623
Then the computer boots Tails 39.817
When I log in to a new session 9.028
And all notifications have disappeared 7.738
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.142
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:0.496
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 7.991
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.215
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.759
Then the computer boots Tails 35.241
When I log in to a new session 8.644
And all notifications have disappeared 7.262
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
1:41.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.084
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_gpt_corruption=gpt_backup,gpt_backup_table" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.511
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.802
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.481
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.072
When I log in to a new session 7.942
And all notifications have disappeared 7.105
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.124
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.220
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.176
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.140
Tags: @product
1:5.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.826
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.762
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.249
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.072
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.237
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.145
Tags: @product
58.483
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.100
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.575
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.195
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.247
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.039
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.043
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.225
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.139
Tags: @product
56.831
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.121
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.044
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.037
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.099
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.874
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.396
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.178
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.135