Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 19 23 Oct 2026, 05:56

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 8:28.656 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
24.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.588
Then the computer boots Tails 22.924
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.008
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.074
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.608
Then the computer boots Tails 21.268
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
22.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.080
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.592
Then the computer boots Tails 21.240
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product @doc
26.996
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given a computer 0.075
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.707
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.231
Then I see a disk failure message 0.643
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.799
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.428
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.292
Then I see a disk failure message 0.648
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.743
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.485
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.694
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
58.776
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 8.469
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.198
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.612
Then the computer boots Tails 35.002
When I log in to a new session 7.413
And all notifications have disappeared 6.637
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
Tags: @product
55.383
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 7.957
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.243
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.618
Then the computer boots Tails 31.486
When I log in to a new session 7.771
And all notifications have disappeared 6.939
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
1:20.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.072
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.370
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.545
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.196
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 6.970
And all notifications have disappeared 7.308
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.105
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.157
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.199
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.161
Tags: @product
56.585
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.091
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.362
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.540
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.245
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.069
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.199
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.123
Tags: @product
54.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.819
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.380
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.236
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.031
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.024
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.162
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
55.053
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.049
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.492
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.204
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.036
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.117