Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4678 17 Oct 2026, 11:04

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 8:37.946 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
23.944
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.575
Then the computer boots Tails 22.222
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.073
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.553
Then the computer boots Tails 21.475
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.077
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.613
Then the computer boots Tails 21.579
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product @doc
23.311
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.607
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.180
Then I see a disk failure message 1.154
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.091
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.504
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.194
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.503
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.295
Then I see a disk failure message 1.395
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
58.854
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 8.389
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.238
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.629
Then the computer boots Tails 33.765
When I log in to a new session 8.109
And all notifications have disappeared 7.356
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.102
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
58.316
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 8.156
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.209
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.592
Then the computer boots Tails 33.547
When I log in to a new session 8.262
And all notifications have disappeared 7.191
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.104
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:20.955
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.076
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.273
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.943
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.200
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.061
When I log in to a new session 6.749
And all notifications have disappeared 7.122
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.118
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.180
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.180
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.180
Tags: @product
1:0.302
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.080
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.799
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.789
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.260
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.045
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.232
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116
Tags: @product
53.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.079
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.032
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.894
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 38.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.244
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.147
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
1:2.985
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.080
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.005
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.389
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.221
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.025
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.117