Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6032 02 Jan 2026, 13:18

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 9:1.219 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
25.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.053
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.748
Then the computer boots Tails 23.306
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.109
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.767
Then the computer boots Tails 22.196
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.189
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.711
Then the computer boots Tails 23.171
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product @doc
24.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.196
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.280
Then I see a disk failure message 0.719
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.937
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.048
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.428
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.335
Then I see a disk failure message 1.369
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.233
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.321
Then I see a disk failure message 0.718
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.625
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.262
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.204
And I power off the computer 0.453
When I start the computer 0.761
Then the computer boots Tails 35.773
When I log in to a new session 10.226
And all notifications have disappeared 6.817
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
59.995
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.509
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.232
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.850
Then the computer boots Tails 34.624
When I log in to a new session 9.404
And all notifications have disappeared 6.988
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.125
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:32.057
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.107
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.433
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.055
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.473
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.067
When I log in to a new session 8.288
And all notifications have disappeared 7.141
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 1.165
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.169
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:5.738
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.978
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.189
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.245
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120
Tags: @product
56.010
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.116
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.345
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.247
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.038
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121
Tags: @product
55.451
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.074
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.762
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.262
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.201
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121