Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21909-allow-disabling-busy-persistence-features 2 12 Nov 2026, 20:24

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 9:26.699 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
24.723
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.090
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.754
Then the computer boots Tails 22.723
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.374
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.677
Then the computer boots Tails 22.475
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.138
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.116
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.755
Then the computer boots Tails 22.346
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
27.643
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 8.243
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.273
Then I see a disk failure message 0.656
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.794
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.348
Then I see a disk failure message 0.846
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.936
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.183
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.695
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.586
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 8.547
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.228
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.687
Then the computer boots Tails 38.808
When I log in to a new session 9.870
And all notifications have disappeared 7.027
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:0.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.143
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.288
And I power off the computer 0.241
When I start the computer 0.687
Then the computer boots Tails 34.859
When I log in to a new session 9.149
And all notifications have disappeared 7.189
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.124
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
1:28.501
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.077
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.147
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.506
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.424
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.036
When I log in to a new session 6.937
And all notifications have disappeared 7.882
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 1.170
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.159
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
1:14.602
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.093
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.387
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.559
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.169
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.031
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.265
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.181
Tags: @product
57.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given a computer 0.125
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.620
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.365
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.444
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.108
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.154
Tags: @product
1:0.566
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given a computer 0.232
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" 0.076
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.032
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.518
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.914
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.257
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.105
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.124
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.300
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.153