Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6085 22 Jan 2026, 15:34

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 9:37.751 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
26.617
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.155
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.739
Then the computer boots Tails 24.417
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.356
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
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 0.818
Then the computer boots Tails 25.202
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.397
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.089
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 24.309
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product @doc
26.525
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.852
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.302
Then I see a disk failure message 0.935
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.200
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given a computer 0.117
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.443
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.389
Then I see a disk failure message 0.784
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.380
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.514
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.367
Then I see a disk failure message 1.522
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.430
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.949
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.213
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.745
Then the computer boots Tails 40.389
When I log in to a new session 11.469
And all notifications have disappeared 7.246
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:4.402
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 7.879
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.321
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.904
Then the computer boots Tails 36.494
When I log in to a new session 11.310
And all notifications have disappeared 7.095
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:29.592
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.118
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.573
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.525
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.233
And all notifications have disappeared 7.475
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.120
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.199
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.194
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127
Tags: @product
1:12.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.065
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.217
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.648
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.082
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.242
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.143
Tags: @product
1:2.185
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.067
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.361
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.878
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.538
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.045
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.196
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
59.712
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.085
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.629
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.003
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.720
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 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118