Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 7 24 Aug 2026, 13:38

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 10:13.207 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
27.158
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.100
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.694
Then the computer boots Tails 24.420
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.477
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.110
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.682
Then the computer boots Tails 22.552
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.644
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 0.639
Then the computer boots Tails 21.322
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.113
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.322
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.211
Then I see a disk failure message 1.276
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.894
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.154
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.346
Then I see a disk failure message 1.632
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.568
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.146
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.067
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.354
Then I see a disk failure message 1.307
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.975
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 8.945
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.309
And I power off the computer 0.244
When I start the computer 0.793
Then the computer boots Tails 38.478
When I log in to a new session 9.754
And all notifications have disappeared 7.327
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.117
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
1:1.540
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 9.210
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.245
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.646
Then the computer boots Tails 35.243
When I log in to a new session 9.014
And all notifications have disappeared 6.774
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.152
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:29.016
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.137
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.766
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.355
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.426
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.033
When I log in to a new session 7.065
And all notifications have disappeared 7.695
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.130
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.165
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.187
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.082
Tags: @product
1:32.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.089
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.725
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:16.915
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.424
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.035
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
1:13.239
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.976
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.483
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
Tags: @product
1:9.400
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.970
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.551
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.483
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.090