Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6156 19 Feb 2026, 12:02

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 10:48.720 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
40.466
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.060
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.786
Then the computer boots Tails 26.676
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 12.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.093
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.783
Then the computer boots Tails 25.726
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.250
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.107
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 25.816
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product @doc
32.412
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.115
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.293
Then I see a disk failure message 0.809
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 22.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.579
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.388
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.393
Then I see a disk failure message 0.787
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.066
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.397
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.298
Then I see a disk failure message 1.553
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.364
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 9.390
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.259
And I power off the computer 0.277
When I start the computer 0.888
Then the computer boots Tails 48.884
When I log in to a new session 11.499
And all notifications have disappeared 6.977
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.180
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:7.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.194
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.293
And I power off the computer 0.279
When I start the computer 0.812
Then the computer boots Tails 39.041
When I log in to a new session 10.738
And all notifications have disappeared 7.845
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.186
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:44.888
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_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" 14.397
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:9.025
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.570
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 9.015
And all notifications have disappeared 7.548
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.159
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.277
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.756
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.111
Tags: @product
1:24.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.086
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.892
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.218
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.572
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.140
Tags: @product
1:6.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.108
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.804
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.737
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.667
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.231
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.215
Tags: @product
1:2.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.720
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.514
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.517
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.090
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.195
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.171