Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_issue-template-stop-tracking-oldstable 2 01 Oct 2026, 17:38

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 10:11.283 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
28.433
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.095
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.667
Then the computer boots Tails 25.219
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given a computer 0.143
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.737
Then the computer boots Tails 24.166
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.409
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.087
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.717
Then the computer boots Tails 23.353
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product @doc
27.928
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 8.149
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.291
Then I see a disk failure message 0.687
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.113
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.327
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.318
Then I see a disk failure message 1.339
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.356
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given a computer 0.180
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.436
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.309
Then I see a disk failure message 1.485
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.700
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.030
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.758
Then the computer boots Tails 37.652
When I log in to a new session 9.276
And all notifications have disappeared 7.282
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.235
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
1:2.615
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 8.385
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.210
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.642
Then the computer boots Tails 36.471
When I log in to a new session 9.313
And all notifications have disappeared 7.222
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.117
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
1:54.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
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" 14.498
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:19.359
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.555
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.051
When I log in to a new session 8.721
And all notifications have disappeared 7.583
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.171
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.184
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.232
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
1:17.288
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.108
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.724
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.785
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.434
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.120
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.136
Tags: @product
1:3.739
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given a computer 0.169
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.907
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.112
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.213
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.063
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.132
Tags: @product
1:0.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.115
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.904
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.993
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.204
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.038
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.177
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129