Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21811-firmware-sof-2026.09.1-1 1 06 Oct 2026, 16:04

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 8:58.665 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
23.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.097
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.597
Then the computer boots Tails 22.055
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.627
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.652
Then the computer boots Tails 21.909
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.250
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 0.614
Then the computer boots Tails 21.448
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
26.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given a computer 0.084
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.785
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.216
Then I see a disk failure message 0.631
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.932
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.588
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
Then I see a disk failure message 0.659
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.723
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.104
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.781
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.319
Then I see a disk failure message 0.712
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.425
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 21.473
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.192
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.609
Then the computer boots Tails 34.012
When I log in to a new session 8.455
And all notifications have disappeared 7.315
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.114
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.042
Tags: @product
57.113
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 8.025
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.223
And I power off the computer 0.239
When I start the computer 0.600
Then the computer boots Tails 32.516
When I log in to a new session 8.170
And all notifications have disappeared 7.198
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:23.249
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.074
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.404
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.379
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.229
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 7.600
And all notifications have disappeared 6.999
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 1.171
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.174
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
57.249
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given a computer 0.109
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.077
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.205
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
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 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
53.397
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=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.039
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 38.758
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.192
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
1:5.913
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.095
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" 13.299
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.077
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.188
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.036
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115