Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6196 12 Mar 2026, 11:21

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 11:19.253 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
33.742
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.064
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.052
Then the computer boots Tails 31.327
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.077
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.818
Then the computer boots Tails 25.494
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.154
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.839
Then the computer boots Tails 26.621
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
32.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.029
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.341
Then I see a disk failure message 1.673
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 22.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.764
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
Then I see a disk failure message 0.842
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.644
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.155
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.480
Then I see a disk failure message 1.012
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.152
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 22.045
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.274
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.806
Then the computer boots Tails 42.849
When I log in to a new session 12.382
And all notifications have disappeared 7.391
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:9.349
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 7.961
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.265
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.876
Then the computer boots Tails 40.909
When I log in to a new session 11.491
And all notifications have disappeared 7.345
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.222
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
2:5.771
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.067
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.053
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.091
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:26.739
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.629
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 11.664
And all notifications have disappeared 7.795
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.187
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.249
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.229
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.128
Tags: @product
1:22.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.074
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.375
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.661
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.600
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.209
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.130
Tags: @product
1:6.755
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.096
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.748
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.815
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.756
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.217
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:5.389
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.330
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.068
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.562
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.049
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.171