Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_disclose-security-issues-post-release 3 29 May 2026, 19:00

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 10:2.066 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
47.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.054
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.852
Then the computer boots Tails 25.439
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 20.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
39.887
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 24.519
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 14.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.732
Then the computer boots Tails 23.422
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
25.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.316
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.253
Then I see a disk failure message 0.773
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.554
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.270
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.297
Then I see a disk failure message 1.475
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.062
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.065
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.316
Then I see a disk failure message 1.475
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.858
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.405
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.198
And I power off the computer 0.261
When I start the computer 0.724
Then the computer boots Tails 38.271
When I log in to a new session 10.388
And all notifications have disappeared 6.466
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.005
Tags: @product
1:4.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.789
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.191
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.723
Then the computer boots Tails 38.312
When I log in to a new session 10.284
And all notifications have disappeared 6.702
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:33.723
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.055
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.197
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.548
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 9.542
And all notifications have disappeared 6.653
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.152
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.198
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.202
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.114
Tags: @product
1:10.472
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.106
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.591
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.470
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.112
Tags: @product
59.193
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.044
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.294
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.539
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.113
Tags: @product
1:3.209
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
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" 0.033
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.047
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.178
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.409
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.249
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.110