Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_late-patch-improvements 1 12 Nov 2026, 20:21

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 10:2.812 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
24.789
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.673
Then the computer boots Tails 21.799
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.087
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.613
Then the computer boots Tails 21.265
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.121
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.737
Then the computer boots Tails 22.174
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product @doc
27.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.091
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.101
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.266
Then I see a disk failure message 0.734
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.307
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.715
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
Then I see a disk failure message 0.801
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.605
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 7.918
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.315
Then I see a disk failure message 0.649
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.015
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 8.580
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.234
And I power off the computer 0.239
When I start the computer 0.645
Then the computer boots Tails 36.742
When I log in to a new session 9.038
And all notifications have disappeared 7.428
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.101
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:0.592
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 8.352
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.251
And I power off the computer 0.262
When I start the computer 0.723
Then the computer boots Tails 34.906
When I log in to a new session 9.015
And all notifications have disappeared 6.963
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.113
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
1:40.376
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.116
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.710
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.307
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.325
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.032
When I log in to a new session 8.010
And all notifications have disappeared 7.378
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.093
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.174
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.167
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.081
Tags: @product
1:27.068
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.078
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.256
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.969
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.452
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.089
Tags: @product
1:8.459
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.506
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.092
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.516
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.026
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.165
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.076
Tags: @product
1:7.547
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.095
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.635
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.026
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.461
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.090
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073