Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 2 06 Oct 2026, 12:28

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 9:56.870 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
27.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.198
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.788
Then the computer boots Tails 23.309
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.647
Then the computer boots Tails 22.287
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.175
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.115
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.690
Then the computer boots Tails 22.092
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product @doc
28.846
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.103
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.482
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.217
Then I see a disk failure message 0.660
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.051
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.094
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.438
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.792
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.677
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.120
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.075
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.477
Then I see a disk failure message 0.778
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.040
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 9.218
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.249
And I power off the computer 0.469
When I start the computer 0.767
Then the computer boots Tails 38.696
When I log in to a new session 9.838
And all notifications have disappeared 7.671
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.123
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:3.053
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 8.660
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.265
And I power off the computer 0.267
When I start the computer 0.692
Then the computer boots Tails 35.940
When I log in to a new session 10.048
And all notifications have disappeared 7.056
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 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
1:32.619
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.114
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" 0.037
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.530
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.440
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.436
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 7.755
And all notifications have disappeared 7.634
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.122
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.253
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.206
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.165
Tags: @product
1:12.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.103
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.608
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.774
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.252
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.038
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.133
Tags: @product
1:2.722
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.362
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" 0.026
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.432
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.033
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.499
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.070
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.221
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
1:4.146
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.105
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.012
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.499
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.192
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118