Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6129 09 Feb 2026, 18:19

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 10:34.200 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
28.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.775
Then the computer boots Tails 26.072
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.283
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.835
Then the computer boots Tails 23.877
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.109
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.814
Then the computer boots Tails 24.820
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
30.791
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.277
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.382
Then I see a disk failure message 0.916
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.167
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.874
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.751
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.481
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.151
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.604
Then I see a disk failure message 0.831
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.778
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 9.020
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.260
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.762
Then the computer boots Tails 44.737
When I log in to a new session 11.488
And all notifications have disappeared 7.112
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.134
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:5.518
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 7.745
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.302
And I power off the computer 0.313
When I start the computer 0.779
Then the computer boots Tails 38.453
When I log in to a new session 10.201
And all notifications have disappeared 7.555
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
1:59.968
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_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" 1.034
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.118
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:24.390
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.644
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 9.221
And all notifications have disappeared 7.270
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.114
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.302
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.752
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.144
Tags: @product
1:13.431
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.100
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" 13.816
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.540
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.643
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
1:1.812
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.035
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.925
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.285
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.095
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.052
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.328
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.125
Tags: @product
1:10.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
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" 13.800
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.948
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.501
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.174
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127