Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 13 17 Oct 2026, 05:58

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 9:27.550 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
25.040
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.109
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.651
Then the computer boots Tails 21.786
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.250
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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 0.706
Then the computer boots Tails 21.429
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.590
Then the computer boots Tails 21.351
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
26.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.842
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.258
Then I see a disk failure message 0.642
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.201
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.644
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.295
Then I see a disk failure message 0.649
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.201
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.563
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.279
Then I see a disk failure message 0.658
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.466
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 8.345
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.231
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.617
Then the computer boots Tails 35.280
When I log in to a new session 8.347
And all notifications have disappeared 7.290
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.102
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
57.360
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 8.096
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.219
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.597
Then the computer boots Tails 32.547
When I log in to a new session 8.257
And all notifications have disappeared 7.269
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.117
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:43.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.120
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.397
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.656
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.414
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.043
When I log in to a new session 6.855
And all notifications have disappeared 7.448
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.107
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.190
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.257
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.147
Tags: @product
1:5.215
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given a computer 0.084
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.881
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.777
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.218
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
1:0.935
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.154
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.136
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.213
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.209
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.123
Tags: @product
1:7.470
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.097
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.073
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.756
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.206
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.206
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120