Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6166 24 Feb 2026, 22:39

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 10:35.826 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
29.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.728
Then the computer boots Tails 27.757
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.112
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.762
Then the computer boots Tails 23.318
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.584
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.068
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.818
Then the computer boots Tails 24.354
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.485
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.070
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.326
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.300
Then I see a disk failure message 0.728
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.910
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.703
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.318
Then I see a disk failure message 1.538
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.759
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.403
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.327
Then I see a disk failure message 1.416
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.568
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 8.988
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.215
And I power off the computer 0.261
When I start the computer 0.888
Then the computer boots Tails 45.532
When I log in to a new session 11.364
And all notifications have disappeared 7.184
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:6.362
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 7.634
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.245
And I power off the computer 0.275
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 39.147
When I log in to a new session 10.970
And all notifications have disappeared 7.165
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.148
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:0.059
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.110
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.295
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:23.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.563
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.097
When I log in to a new session 10.551
And all notifications have disappeared 7.069
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.139
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.239
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.793
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.149
Tags: @product
1:15.909
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.847
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.162
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.520
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.062
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.174
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
Tags: @product
1:5.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.761
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.560
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.160
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.138
Tags: @product
1:8.817
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=fs_resize" 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" 13.630
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.315
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.535
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119