Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4204 02 Feb 2026, 12:03

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 10:32.034 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
33.064
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.060
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.738
Then the computer boots Tails 31.047
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.274
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 23.508
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.511
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.777
Then the computer boots Tails 24.343
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
30.485
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.070
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.358
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.350
Then I see a disk failure message 0.905
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.467
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.061
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.453
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.317
Then I see a disk failure message 1.552
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.335
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.029
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.298
Then I see a disk failure message 1.375
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.739
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.412
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.293
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.727
Then the computer boots Tails 45.179
When I log in to a new session 12.014
And all notifications have disappeared 6.710
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:6.600
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.889
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.346
And I power off the computer 0.268
When I start the computer 0.822
Then the computer boots Tails 39.402
When I log in to a new session 10.370
And all notifications have disappeared 7.340
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:6.403
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.060
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.471
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:31.691
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.522
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.503
And all notifications have disappeared 7.458
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.172
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.250
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.196
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:6.197
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_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.259
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.992
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.580
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.192
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120
Tags: @product
1:0.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.063
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.041
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.229
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.304
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116
Tags: @product
1:8.035
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.067
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.871
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.185
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.506
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.090
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.054
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.222
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.133