Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6155 18 Feb 2026, 19:51

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 11:4.047 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
32.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.133
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.800
Then the computer boots Tails 28.709
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
32.091
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 0.979
Then the computer boots Tails 29.209
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.018
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.788
Then the computer boots Tails 24.600
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product @doc
29.062
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.091
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.524
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.248
Then I see a disk failure message 0.785
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.722
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.448
Then I see a disk failure message 0.981
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.609
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.061
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.449
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.393
Then I see a disk failure message 0.770
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.400
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 8.897
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.311
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.765
Then the computer boots Tails 49.636
When I log in to a new session 11.147
And all notifications have disappeared 7.226
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
1:5.119
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 7.749
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.294
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.816
Then the computer boots Tails 37.705
When I log in to a new session 11.110
And all notifications have disappeared 7.043
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.139
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
2:13.436
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.423
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:35.989
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.666
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.043
When I log in to a new session 11.362
And all notifications have disappeared 7.252
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.172
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.200
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.232
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.094
Tags: @product
1:6.527
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.066
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.403
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.068
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.605
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.050
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.250
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.139
Tags: @product
1:3.804
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.100
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.156
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.570
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.646
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.136
Tags: @product
1:16.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given a computer 0.077
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.162
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.639
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.622
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.266
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.197