Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_security-issues 3 25 Aug 2026, 13:56

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 10:30.779 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
26.258
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.146
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.710
Then the computer boots Tails 24.260
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.646
Then the computer boots Tails 22.780
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.234
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.097
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.675
Then the computer boots Tails 22.109
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.891
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.114
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.889
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.274
Then I see a disk failure message 0.708
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.444
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.812
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.410
Then I see a disk failure message 1.310
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.888
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
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 1.322
Then I see a disk failure message 0.634
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.605
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 8.873
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.300
And I power off the computer 0.249
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 38.751
When I log in to a new session 10.014
And all notifications have disappeared 7.523
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.116
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.492
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 8.876
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.277
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 34.816
When I log in to a new session 8.772
And all notifications have disappeared 7.552
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.208
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:44.269
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_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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.792
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.065
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.421
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.049
When I log in to a new session 6.975
And all notifications have disappeared 7.789
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.547
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.249
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.218
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.074
Tags: @product
1:23.868
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.099
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.029
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.961
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:8.025
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.525
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 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.086
Tags: @product
1:15.772
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=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.858
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.952
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.538
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.085
Tags: @product
1:18.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
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" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.598
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.924
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.532
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.215
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.095