Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 20 24 Oct 2026, 05:57

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 9:2.063 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
25.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.083
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.659
Then the computer boots Tails 23.235
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.107
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.711
Then the computer boots Tails 21.943
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.351
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.697
Then the computer boots Tails 21.660
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
23.177
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 7.497
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.178
Then I see a disk failure message 1.241
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.444
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.324
Then I see a disk failure message 0.652
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.187
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.600
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.282
Then I see a disk failure message 0.625
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
59.990
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 8.326
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.186
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.611
Then the computer boots Tails 35.153
When I log in to a new session 8.298
And all notifications have disappeared 7.042
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.125
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
56.036
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 7.924
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.199
And I power off the computer 0.237
When I start the computer 0.588
Then the computer boots Tails 32.147
When I log in to a new session 7.831
And all notifications have disappeared 6.976
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.125
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:19.935
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.125
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.302
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.726
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.190
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.049
When I log in to a new session 6.544
And all notifications have disappeared 7.377
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 1.209
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.237
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
1:11.588
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=guid" 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" 12.725
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.305
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.200
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.022
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.171
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.150
Tags: @product
55.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.128
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.779
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.932
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.166
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.038
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.208
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
1:10.979
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.021
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.449
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.177
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.120
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115