Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_5494-snowflake 45 16 Apr 2026, 11:42

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 11:41.719 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
28.216
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 24.305
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.624
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.077
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.774
Then the computer boots Tails 25.088
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.131
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.751
Then the computer boots Tails 23.985
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
29.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.135
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.084
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.326
Then I see a disk failure message 0.797
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.592
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.463
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.360
Then I see a disk failure message 1.677
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.637
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.736
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.375
Then I see a disk failure message 1.632
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.684
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 21.748
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.233
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 45.172
When I log in to a new session 12.293
And all notifications have disappeared 7.043
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:8.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.200
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.228
And I power off the computer 0.269
When I start the computer 0.773
Then the computer boots Tails 41.297
When I log in to a new session 10.026
And all notifications have disappeared 7.540
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.175
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:7.533
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.910
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:29.470
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.595
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 11.468
And all notifications have disappeared 7.303
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.122
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.234
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.285
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
1:38.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.513
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:21.778
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.579
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.130
Tags: @product
1:18.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.115
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" 0.015
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.705
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.497
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.586
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.187
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.153
Tags: @product
1:12.678
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.084
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.337
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.223
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.593
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.062
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.296
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.144