Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4235 17 Feb 2026, 12:00

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 10:14.152 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
28.236
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.056
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.772
Then the computer boots Tails 26.191
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.059
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.752
Then the computer boots Tails 23.824
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.796
Then the computer boots Tails 24.069
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product @doc
29.392
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.199
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.344
Then I see a disk failure message 0.902
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.713
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.386
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.345
Then I see a disk failure message 1.492
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.757
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.384
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.367
Then I see a disk failure message 1.512
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.950
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 8.947
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.226
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.769
Then the computer boots Tails 47.800
When I log in to a new session 10.759
And all notifications have disappeared 7.034
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.148
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:5.907
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 7.707
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.222
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.714
Then the computer boots Tails 39.593
When I log in to a new session 9.890
And all notifications have disappeared 7.353
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.148
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:52.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.101
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.885
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:16.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.637
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.056
When I log in to a new session 10.266
And all notifications have disappeared 7.462
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.121
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.207
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.215
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:5.429
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.072
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.012
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.529
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.173
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.130
Tags: @product
1:1.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.871
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.500
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.564
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.204
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.146
Tags: @product
1:6.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.061
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.375
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.948
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.551
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126