Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 1 06 Oct 2026, 12:00

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 8:57.877 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
24.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.096
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.693
Then the computer boots Tails 22.280
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.556
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
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 21.094
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.281
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.719
Then the computer boots Tails 22.248
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
21.706
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 7.838
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.182
Then I see a disk failure message 1.266
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.320
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.085
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.721
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
Then I see a disk failure message 0.621
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.154
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.991
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.338
Then I see a disk failure message 1.511
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.871
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 9.253
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.240
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.629
Then the computer boots Tails 37.489
When I log in to a new session 8.784
And all notifications have disappeared 7.087
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:1.649
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 8.062
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.259
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 36.206
When I log in to a new session 8.850
And all notifications have disappeared 7.132
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
1:24.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.095
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.671
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.355
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.474
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 7.834
And all notifications have disappeared 8.106
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.123
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.178
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.202
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
1:0.609
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.094
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.542
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.426
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.230
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.067
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.141
Tags: @product
59.239
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.071
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.454
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.252
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.068
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.213
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.123
Tags: @product
1:3.073
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.101
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.645
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.810
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.260
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.144