Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21866-update-firmware-sof 1 03 Nov 2026, 14:34

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 10:6.079 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
26.168
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.086
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.623
Then the computer boots Tails 24.314
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.686
Then the computer boots Tails 22.750
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.091
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.640
Then the computer boots Tails 21.634
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product @doc
26.771
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.867
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.244
Then I see a disk failure message 0.791
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.349
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 33.625
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.294
Then I see a disk failure message 1.512
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.348
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 7.952
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.300
Then I see a disk failure message 1.627
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.638
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 8.623
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.216
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.616
Then the computer boots Tails 37.459
When I log in to a new session 7.814
And all notifications have disappeared 7.542
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 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
1:11.290
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 21.523
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.208
And I power off the computer 0.261
When I start the computer 0.637
Then the computer boots Tails 33.432
When I log in to a new session 8.226
And all notifications have disappeared 6.849
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:44.609
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.093
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.525
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:12.225
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.433
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.072
When I log in to a new session 7.468
And all notifications have disappeared 7.215
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.114
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.204
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.213
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.147
Tags: @product
1:13.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.089
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.263
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.618
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.220
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.031
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.142
Tags: @product
1:0.440
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.090
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.472
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.404
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.229
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.031
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121
Tags: @product
56.563
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.103
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.327
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.632
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.194
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.061
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.025
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.171
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121