Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4657 05 Oct 2026, 11:17

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 9:43.703 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
24.500
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.713
Then the computer boots Tails 22.316
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given a computer 0.098
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.722
Then the computer boots Tails 22.999
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.653
Then the computer boots Tails 22.517
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
27.644
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.760
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.274
Then I see a disk failure message 0.834
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.673
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.232
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.320
Then I see a disk failure message 1.275
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.114
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.114
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.936
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.304
Then I see a disk failure message 0.756
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.749
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 9.259
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.220
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.684
Then the computer boots Tails 36.859
When I log in to a new session 8.680
And all notifications have disappeared 6.690
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.098
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
58.886
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 8.165
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.248
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.736
Then the computer boots Tails 33.625
When I log in to a new session 9.175
And all notifications have disappeared 6.521
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:31.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.644
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.962
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.365
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.056
When I log in to a new session 7.067
And all notifications have disappeared 7.324
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.129
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.192
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.212
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
1:11.264
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.086
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.778
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.562
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.411
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.062
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.094
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.219
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.189
Tags: @product
1:8.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given a computer 0.096
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.758
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.023
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.241
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.079
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.246
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.100
Tags: @product
1:19.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.599
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.444
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.426
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.072
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.198
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.098