Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6153 18 Feb 2026, 08:47

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 9:22.156 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
27.693
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.054
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.828
Then the computer boots Tails 25.438
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.602
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.685
Then the computer boots Tails 23.637
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.634
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.737
Then the computer boots Tails 23.877
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
25.653
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.279
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.267
Then I see a disk failure message 0.750
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.602
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 7.342
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.738
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
19.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.339
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.338
Then I see a disk failure message 1.408
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.548
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 8.679
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.202
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.726
Then the computer boots Tails 37.533
When I log in to a new session 9.660
And all notifications have disappeared 7.341
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.134
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
1:1.922
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 7.561
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.252
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.741
Then the computer boots Tails 35.908
When I log in to a new session 9.764
And all notifications have disappeared 7.303
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:23.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.279
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.068
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.488
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.042
When I log in to a new session 8.350
And all notifications have disappeared 7.100
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 1.167
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.188
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.117
Tags: @product
1:11.062
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=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.259
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.216
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.267
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.141
Tags: @product
59.926
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.252
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.848
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.480
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.171
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.115
Tags: @product
1:9.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.197
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.444
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.238
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.183
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116