Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6266 06 Apr 2026, 11:26

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 10:48.548 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
27.666
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.076
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.756
Then the computer boots Tails 25.392
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.104
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.772
Then the computer boots Tails 25.174
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.044
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.053
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.722
Then the computer boots Tails 24.980
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product @doc
28.957
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.746
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.336
Then I see a disk failure message 0.839
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.204
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.405
Then I see a disk failure message 1.730
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.048
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.590
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.318
Then I see a disk failure message 0.758
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.200
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 8.996
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.199
And I power off the computer 0.268
When I start the computer 0.832
Then the computer boots Tails 45.045
When I log in to a new session 11.398
And all notifications have disappeared 7.331
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.123
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:8.890
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.675
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.271
When I start the computer 0.821
Then the computer boots Tails 41.972
When I log in to a new session 10.740
And all notifications have disappeared 7.051
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.139
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:1.599
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.819
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:22.057
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.631
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.042
When I log in to a new session 12.545
And all notifications have disappeared 7.543
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.149
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.188
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.530
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.145
Tags: @product
1:19.722
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.899
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.875
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.618
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:2.684
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.066
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.279
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.463
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.546
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.211
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:9.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.061
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.752
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.285
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.574
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.176
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121