Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 6 23 Aug 2026, 13:35

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 9:31.336 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
27.369
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.098
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.679
Then the computer boots Tails 24.289
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.175
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.688
Then the computer boots Tails 21.865
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.084
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.641
Then the computer boots Tails 21.699
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
28.594
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.148
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.988
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.243
Then I see a disk failure message 0.751
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.351
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.586
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
Then I see a disk failure message 0.703
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.508
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.112
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.616
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.323
Then I see a disk failure message 0.717
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.786
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 8.628
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.206
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.605
Then the computer boots Tails 36.617
When I log in to a new session 7.977
And all notifications have disappeared 7.387
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.111
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
59.191
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 8.202
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.225
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.629
Then the computer boots Tails 34.228
When I log in to a new session 7.614
And all notifications have disappeared 7.878
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:38.772
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.138
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.282
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:6.477
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.429
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 7.374
And all notifications have disappeared 7.338
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.138
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.217
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.266
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
1:9.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.125
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.041
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.947
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.219
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.233
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.146
Tags: @product
55.636
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.083
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.464
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.236
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.122
Tags: @product
1:13.120
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.083
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.109
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.362
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.216
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.214
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116