Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6090 24 Jan 2026, 11:51

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 10:1.026 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
30.405
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.832
Then the computer boots Tails 26.518
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.319
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.737
Then the computer boots Tails 25.233
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.795
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.155
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.785
Then the computer boots Tails 26.471
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product @doc
25.797
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.259
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.255
Then I see a disk failure message 1.027
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.626
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.625
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.437
Then I see a disk failure message 1.547
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.107
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.616
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.292
Then I see a disk failure message 1.376
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.369
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 8.564
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.913
Then the computer boots Tails 39.098
When I log in to a new session 11.025
And all notifications have disappeared 7.138
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
1:4.649
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.062
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.214
And I power off the computer 0.310
When I start the computer 0.904
Then the computer boots Tails 37.023
When I log in to a new session 10.471
And all notifications have disappeared 7.476
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.180
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
1:39.327
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.422
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.307
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.566
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.041
When I log in to a new session 8.833
And all notifications have disappeared 7.383
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.214
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.228
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.233
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.218
Tags: @product
1:15.477
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.072
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.541
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.975
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.541
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.069
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.196
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.140
Tags: @product
1:1.335
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.508
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.948
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.531
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.065
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
Tags: @product
1:8.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
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" 13.572
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.509
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.143