Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21839-regularly-update-tails-builder-apt-snapshots 1 27 Oct 2026, 15:18

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 9:56.588 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
26.079
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 0.648
Then the computer boots Tails 24.042
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.099
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.755
Then the computer boots Tails 23.686
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.515
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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 0.750
Then the computer boots Tails 23.141
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
29.725
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.483
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.291
Then I see a disk failure message 0.761
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.171
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.646
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.214
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given a computer 0.126
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.143
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.318
Then I see a disk failure message 1.322
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.403
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.328
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.239
And I power off the computer 0.238
When I start the computer 0.642
Then the computer boots Tails 39.332
When I log in to a new session 9.246
And all notifications have disappeared 7.256
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089
Tags: @product
1:5.048
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 8.753
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.259
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.791
Then the computer boots Tails 36.138
When I log in to a new session 11.132
And all notifications have disappeared 7.614
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.100
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:39.378
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.235
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" 0.059
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.817
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.718
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.733
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.121
When I log in to a new session 8.650
And all notifications have disappeared 7.524
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.109
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.211
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.161
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.208
Tags: @product
1:17.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given a computer 0.184
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.062
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.273
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.198
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126
Tags: @product
1:1.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.100
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.859
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.140
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.318
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.070
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.324
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.190
Tags: @product
59.240
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.125
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.068
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.520
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.863
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.319
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.066
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.217
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.261