Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_issue-template-stop-tracking-oldstable 3 02 Oct 2026, 05:56

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 8:48.306 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
25.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.650
Then the computer boots Tails 23.358
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.319
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.074
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.611
Then the computer boots Tails 20.469
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.125
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.666
Then the computer boots Tails 21.315
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
21.910
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.881
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.341
Then I see a disk failure message 0.662
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.411
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.589
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.397
Then I see a disk failure message 0.660
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.690
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.361
Then I see a disk failure message 0.639
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.586
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 8.483
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.188
And I power off the computer 0.241
When I start the computer 0.616
Then the computer boots Tails 35.037
When I log in to a new session 8.279
And all notifications have disappeared 7.624
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.111
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
58.509
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 8.165
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.231
And I power off the computer 0.239
When I start the computer 0.633
Then the computer boots Tails 33.628
When I log in to a new session 7.831
And all notifications have disappeared 7.636
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:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
1:23.835
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.077
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.190
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.122
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.489
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.035
When I log in to a new session 7.220
And all notifications have disappeared 7.233
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.106
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.153
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.145
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.128
Tags: @product
1:6.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.092
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.167
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.162
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.244
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.122
Tags: @product
55.216
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.106
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.538
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.089
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.212
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.147
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
55.436
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_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.298
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.425
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.208
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 0.251
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116