Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6172 25 Feb 2026, 17:36

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 10:24.482 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
28.078
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.729
Then the computer boots Tails 26.136
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.104
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.749
Then the computer boots Tails 27.750
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.726
Then the computer boots Tails 23.706
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product @doc
29.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given a computer 0.068
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.462
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.304
Then I see a disk failure message 0.806
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.181
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.320
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.456
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.331
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 7.252
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.338
Then I see a disk failure message 0.734
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.001
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 22.028
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.273
And I power off the computer 0.278
When I start the computer 0.741
Then the computer boots Tails 40.726
When I log in to a new session 9.561
And all notifications have disappeared 7.239
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.147
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:2.478
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 7.778
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.702
Then the computer boots Tails 36.502
When I log in to a new session 9.741
And all notifications have disappeared 7.154
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.120
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:55.473
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 14.198
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:22.332
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.596
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.043
When I log in to a new session 7.610
And all notifications have disappeared 7.024
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.189
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.189
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.206
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
Tags: @product
1:8.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.101
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.547
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.550
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.542
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118
Tags: @product
1:1.464
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.357
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.498
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.231
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.068
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118
Tags: @product
1:6.170
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.051
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.459
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.758
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.612
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.178
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120