Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6202 14 Mar 2026, 11:19

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 10:42.921 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
32.005
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.075
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.849
Then the computer boots Tails 27.980
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.588
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.087
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.896
Then the computer boots Tails 27.151
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.357
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.887
Then the computer boots Tails 26.599
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
27.750
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.153
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.851
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.843
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.073
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.624
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.335
Then I see a disk failure message 2.150
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.221
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.338
Then I see a disk failure message 1.487
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.032
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 9.211
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.213
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.839
Then the computer boots Tails 49.429
When I log in to a new session 11.180
And all notifications have disappeared 7.706
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
1:12.703
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 8.593
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.239
And I power off the computer 0.286
When I start the computer 0.863
Then the computer boots Tails 43.443
When I log in to a new session 11.665
And all notifications have disappeared 7.430
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.174
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
1:51.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.089
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" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.023
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:13.628
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.592
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.061
When I log in to a new session 10.767
And all notifications have disappeared 7.905
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.134
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.227
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.233
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.145
Tags: @product
1:15.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.072
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.999
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.077
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.651
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.236
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.167
Tags: @product
1:5.879
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.182
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.735
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.548
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.223
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.134
Tags: @product
1:4.697
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.092
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.948
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.596
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.066
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.233
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.170