Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21909-allow-disabling-busy-persistence-features 1 12 Nov 2026, 19:58

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 9:33.665 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
26.362
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given a computer 0.109
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.684
Then the computer boots Tails 23.823
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.218
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.723
Then the computer boots Tails 22.113
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.871
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.122
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 21.858
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
28.577
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.086
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.263
Then I see a disk failure message 0.680
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.836
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
Then I see a disk failure message 0.666
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.810
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.416
Then I see a disk failure message 0.730
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.581
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 8.854
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.249
When I start the computer 0.678
Then the computer boots Tails 37.735
When I log in to a new session 8.996
And all notifications have disappeared 6.699
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
Tags: @product
1:3.446
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 8.557
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.288
And I power off the computer 0.236
When I start the computer 0.651
Then the computer boots Tails 37.720
When I log in to a new session 9.068
And all notifications have disappeared 6.796
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.122
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:31.736
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_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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.676
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.515
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.373
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.080
When I log in to a new session 7.300
And all notifications have disappeared 7.053
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.133
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.227
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.233
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.136
Tags: @product
1:16.698
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.123
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" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.588
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.371
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.246
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.223
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.136
Tags: @product
57.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.509
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.136
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.182
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.049
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
1:1.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.271
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.105
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.241
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.034
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.148