Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21811-firmware-sof-2026.09.1-1 2 07 Oct 2026, 02:39

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 9:0.683 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
26.162
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.096
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.734
Then the computer boots Tails 23.010
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.081
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.100
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.664
Then the computer boots Tails 21.972
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.083
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.615
Then the computer boots Tails 21.607
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
27.546
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 7.980
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.270
Then I see a disk failure message 0.646
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.128
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.912
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.304
Then I see a disk failure message 1.263
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.535
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.677
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.367
Then I see a disk failure message 0.619
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.713
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 9.139
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.285
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.703
Then the computer boots Tails 36.866
When I log in to a new session 8.350
And all notifications have disappeared 6.923
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 2.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
1:3.628
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.795
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.635
And I power off the computer 0.249
When I start the computer 0.614
Then the computer boots Tails 37.006
When I log in to a new session 8.395
And all notifications have disappeared 6.795
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
1:26.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.108
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.958
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.508
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.224
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.057
When I log in to a new session 8.109
And all notifications have disappeared 6.862
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.113
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.162
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.236
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.134
Tags: @product
1:1.247
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.095
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.026
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.527
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.033
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.225
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.068
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.208
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
55.685
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=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.032
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.955
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.105
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.215
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.162
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.134
Tags: @product
59.409
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.114
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" 0.029
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.037
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.505
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.199
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.208
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.061
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.211
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116