Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6130 09 Feb 2026, 18:56

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 12:36.387 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
32.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.174
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.048
Then the computer boots Tails 29.699
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
33.711
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.178
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.155
Then the computer boots Tails 30.072
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
33.981
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.167
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.453
Then the computer boots Tails 30.562
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 6.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.175
Tags: @product @doc
27.894
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.126
Given a computer 1.624
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.153
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.313
Then I see a disk failure message 1.482
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.187
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.027
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.578
Then I see a disk failure message 1.530
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.471
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.259
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.626
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.390
Then I see a disk failure message 2.701
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.409
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.301
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.394
And I power off the computer 0.308
When I start the computer 1.284
Then the computer boots Tails 45.148
When I log in to a new session 13.855
And all notifications have disappeared 9.847
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.257
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:21.263
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 9.989
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.833
And I power off the computer 1.334
When I start the computer 1.235
Then the computer boots Tails 44.124
When I log in to a new session 15.170
And all notifications have disappeared 8.333
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.231
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
2:10.703
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.177
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" 0.051
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.043
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 42.201
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.216
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.681
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.080
When I log in to a new session 9.778
And all notifications have disappeared 8.994
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.227
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.350
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.887
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
Tags: @product
1:27.650
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.186
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.058
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.056
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 27.212
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.781
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.865
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.081
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.058
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.340
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.089
Tags: @product
1:25.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.203
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" 0.043
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.044
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.795
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.333
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.819
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.094
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.065
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.385
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.077
Tags: @product
1:43.431
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.220
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" 0.045
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.055
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 27.789
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:13.029
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.837
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.078
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.059
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.305
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.089