Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6088 23 Jan 2026, 12:06

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 10:22.599 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
27.933
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given a computer 0.094
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.709
Then the computer boots Tails 25.657
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.320
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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 0.793
Then the computer boots Tails 25.076
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.058
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.782
Then the computer boots Tails 24.177
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product @doc
33.533
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given a computer 0.075
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.224
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.302
Then I see a disk failure message 0.745
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 23.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.412
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.666
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.407
Then I see a disk failure message 0.769
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.701
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.416
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.328
Then I see a disk failure message 1.428
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.542
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 9.466
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.350
And I power off the computer 0.464
When I start the computer 0.768
Then the computer boots Tails 40.509
When I log in to a new session 10.495
And all notifications have disappeared 7.354
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
1:6.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.679
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.315
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 39.333
When I log in to a new session 11.176
And all notifications have disappeared 6.947
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:50.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.202
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:15.894
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.548
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.046
When I log in to a new session 8.206
And all notifications have disappeared 7.434
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.180
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.225
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.800
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
1:8.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.998
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.160
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.574
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.055
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.199
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.172
Tags: @product
1:0.627
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.860
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.938
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.486
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.172
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116
Tags: @product
1:12.853
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.066
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.148
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.819
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.523
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.179
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129