Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_issue-template-stop-tracking-oldstable 1 01 Oct 2026, 17:35

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 10:15.023 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
24.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.778
Then the computer boots Tails 22.308
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.743
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.100
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.693
Then the computer boots Tails 22.878
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.501
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.107
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.668
Then the computer boots Tails 22.678
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
27.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.803
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.348
Then I see a disk failure message 0.687
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.539
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.101
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.063
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
Then I see a disk failure message 0.904
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.109
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.966
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.307
Then I see a disk failure message 1.463
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.964
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 22.720
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.205
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.745
Then the computer boots Tails 37.000
When I log in to a new session 8.914
And all notifications have disappeared 8.003
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:3.684
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 8.561
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.233
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.619
Then the computer boots Tails 37.055
When I log in to a new session 8.834
And all notifications have disappeared 8.025
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.101
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:42.777
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.107
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:8.744
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.242
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.039
When I log in to a new session 7.997
And all notifications have disappeared 8.008
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.126
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.194
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.190
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.097
Tags: @product
1:9.540
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.109
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.029
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.570
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.505
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.035
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.210
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.151
Tags: @product
1:7.834
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.137
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" 0.047
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.036
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.791
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.291
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.220
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.062
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.206
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.092
Tags: @product
1:15.080
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.108
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.919
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.463
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.220
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.047
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.206
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.110