Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6141 11 Feb 2026, 19:31

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 10:36.790 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
30.832
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.744
Then the computer boots Tails 26.656
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.910
Then the computer boots Tails 26.601
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.086
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.877
Then the computer boots Tails 27.008
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
27.777
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.116
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.174
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.270
Then I see a disk failure message 0.820
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.983
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.086
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.052
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.506
Then I see a disk failure message 0.885
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.237
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.185
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.335
Then I see a disk failure message 0.753
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.455
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 8.884
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.256
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 1.007
Then the computer boots Tails 43.463
When I log in to a new session 11.643
And all notifications have disappeared 7.769
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:8.526
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 8.406
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.223
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.757
Then the computer boots Tails 38.574
When I log in to a new session 12.650
And all notifications have disappeared 7.513
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.135
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:40.449
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.062
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.204
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.586
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.608
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.072
When I log in to a new session 10.239
And all notifications have disappeared 7.535
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.140
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.220
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.743
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.143
Tags: @product
1:15.530
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.087
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.035
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.590
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.832
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.611
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.048
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.242
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.139
Tags: @product
1:9.289
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.623
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.601
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.624
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.045
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.203
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.130
Tags: @product
1:18.302
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.096
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.158
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.680
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.068
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.253
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.135