Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6053 12 Jan 2026, 16:40

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 9:21.199 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
28.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.052
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.761
Then the computer boots Tails 26.236
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.721
Then the computer boots Tails 24.177
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given a computer 0.158
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.765
Then the computer boots Tails 24.864
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product @doc
23.511
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.721
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.268
Then I see a disk failure message 1.492
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.382
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.990
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.412
Then I see a disk failure message 0.893
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.245
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.528
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.329
Then I see a disk failure message 1.425
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.939
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 8.883
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.194
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.727
Then the computer boots Tails 37.172
When I log in to a new session 10.424
And all notifications have disappeared 7.141
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
1:4.046
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.032
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.125
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.182
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.788
Then the computer boots Tails 36.491
When I log in to a new session 10.781
And all notifications have disappeared 7.211
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.204
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
1:31.599
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.063
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.298
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.563
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.040
When I log in to a new session 9.037
And all notifications have disappeared 7.458
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.121
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.208
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.213
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.138
Tags: @product
1:1.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.064
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.660
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.848
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.243
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.173
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.155
Tags: @product
56.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.031
Given a computer 0.158
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.098
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.505
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.345
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.173
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118
Tags: @product
1:3.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.587
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.400
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.663
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.091
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.065
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.332
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.177