Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21736-reject-unsupported-installs 23 27 Oct 2026, 06:00

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 9:23.356 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
24.791
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.070
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.615
Then the computer boots Tails 21.581
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.782
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 0.662
Then the computer boots Tails 21.916
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.074
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.612
Then the computer boots Tails 21.747
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
26.168
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.615
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.258
Then I see a disk failure message 0.631
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.700
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.302
Then I see a disk failure message 0.716
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.799
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.322
Then I see a disk failure message 0.626
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
59.928
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 8.438
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.239
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.700
Then the computer boots Tails 35.195
When I log in to a new session 8.170
And all notifications have disappeared 6.826
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.109
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
56.882
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 7.874
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.239
And I power off the computer 0.237
When I start the computer 0.624
Then the computer boots Tails 32.487
When I log in to a new session 7.790
And all notifications have disappeared 7.500
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.123
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
1:27.028
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.086
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.341
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.767
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.245
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.035
When I log in to a new session 7.926
And all notifications have disappeared 7.136
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.120
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.155
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.163
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.086
Tags: @product
1:12.217
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.518
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.161
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.237
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.029
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.023
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
Tags: @product
1:8.323
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.085
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.960
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.855
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.158
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.029
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.024
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073
Tags: @product
1:10.762
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=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.042
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.139
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.113
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.192
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.024
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.110
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072