Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6177 27 Feb 2026, 11:57

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 12:22.933 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
32.012
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.166
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.036
Then the computer boots Tails 29.188
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.165
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.069
Then the computer boots Tails 28.339
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.169
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.042
Then the computer boots Tails 28.505
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
32.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.186
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.311
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.476
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
32.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.166
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.100
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.346
Then I see a disk failure message 2.529
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
32.041
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.163
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.079
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.377
Then I see a disk failure message 2.632
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.261
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 13.145
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.338
And I power off the computer 0.297
When I start the computer 1.133
Then the computer boots Tails 44.273
When I log in to a new session 12.190
And all notifications have disappeared 8.639
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.232
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:19.642
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 11.541
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.331
And I power off the computer 0.301
When I start the computer 1.064
Then the computer boots Tails 45.169
When I log in to a new session 12.350
And all notifications have disappeared 8.697
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.176
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:0.875
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.160
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" 0.043
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 30.548
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:6.223
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.593
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.078
When I log in to a new session 10.227
And all notifications have disappeared 8.724
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.180
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.257
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.787
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.185
Tags: @product
1:35.416
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.167
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.047
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.040
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.631
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.292
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.634
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.132
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.071
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.376
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.183
Tags: @product
1:26.868
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.178
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" 0.046
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 31.948
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.540
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.643
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.079
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.062
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.316
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.178
Tags: @product
1:28.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.328
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" 0.044
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.231
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.002
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.587
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.071
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.053
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.258
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.194