Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6081 20 Jan 2026, 12:02

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 10:7.214 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
24.961
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.723
Then the computer boots Tails 23.011
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.678
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.706
Then the computer boots Tails 22.757
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.752
Then the computer boots Tails 22.099
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
29.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.110
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.349
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.246
Then I see a disk failure message 0.728
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.270
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.397
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.345
Then I see a disk failure message 1.398
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.318
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 7.152
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.749
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.548
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 8.451
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.257
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.720
Then the computer boots Tails 47.189
When I log in to a new session 9.602
And all notifications have disappeared 6.947
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.122
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
1:6.491
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.566
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.286
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.807
Then the computer boots Tails 41.174
When I log in to a new session 9.484
And all notifications have disappeared 6.798
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.114
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
1:55.701
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.050
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.448
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:21.242
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.495
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.042
When I log in to a new session 9.992
And all notifications have disappeared 6.914
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.112
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.180
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.185
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.151
Tags: @product
1:8.267
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=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.433
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.977
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.510
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.114
Tags: @product
1:3.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 13.195
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.062
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.231
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.113
Tags: @product
57.573
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
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" 13.646
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.354
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 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116