Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6311 20 Apr 2026, 13:57

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 10:12.201 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
30.835
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.107
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.830
Then the computer boots Tails 26.613
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.543
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.856
Then the computer boots Tails 26.613
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.476
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.902
Then the computer boots Tails 25.162
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.095
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.027
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.326
Then I see a disk failure message 0.855
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.062
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.099
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.097
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.289
Then I see a disk failure message 1.436
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.072
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.505
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.347
Then I see a disk failure message 1.569
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.498
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 9.333
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.269
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 40.756
When I log in to a new session 10.728
And all notifications have disappeared 7.259
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:8.465
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 7.768
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.322
And I power off the computer 0.263
When I start the computer 1.005
Then the computer boots Tails 39.384
When I log in to a new session 12.142
And all notifications have disappeared 7.312
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.246
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:28.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.071
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.047
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.720
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.689
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 8.481
And all notifications have disappeared 7.668
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.143
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.222
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.773
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.111
Tags: @product
1:13.051
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.506
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.613
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.223
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.164
Tags: @product
1:10.054
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.068
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" 14.516
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.514
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.608
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.216
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.128
Tags: @product
1:13.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.159
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.633
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.060
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.191
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127