Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6308 19 Apr 2026, 11:39

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 10:48.831 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
32.463
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.080
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.776
Then the computer boots Tails 30.298
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.174
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.789
Then the computer boots Tails 26.302
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.674
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 0.878
Then the computer boots Tails 26.433
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product @doc
31.128
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.411
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.321
Then I see a disk failure message 0.782
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.445
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.396
Then I see a disk failure message 1.424
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.065
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.836
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.330
Then I see a disk failure message 0.761
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.806
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 8.868
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.262
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.761
Then the computer boots Tails 53.436
When I log in to a new session 10.816
And all notifications have disappeared 7.260
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.138
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:6.575
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 7.719
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.348
And I power off the computer 0.278
When I start the computer 0.787
Then the computer boots Tails 39.114
When I log in to a new session 11.093
And all notifications have disappeared 7.096
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:56.369
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
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" 0.033
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.612
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:19.566
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.521
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.042
When I log in to a new session 11.762
And all notifications have disappeared 7.162
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.123
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.219
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.202
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
Tags: @product
1:10.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.087
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.879
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.097
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.563
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.191
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.125
Tags: @product
1:2.622
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.069
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.062
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.743
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.468
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118
Tags: @product
1:13.622
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.053
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.975
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.521
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.215
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.145