Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6328 28 Apr 2026, 11:34

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 10:13.261 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
31.431
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.072
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 26.980
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.920
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.831
Then the computer boots Tails 26.739
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.801
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.082
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.731
Then the computer boots Tails 25.090
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product @doc
26.658
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.085
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.898
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.304
Then I see a disk failure message 0.723
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.547
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.338
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.567
Then I see a disk failure message 1.742
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.204
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.279
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.301
Then I see a disk failure message 1.608
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.099
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 8.908
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.227
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.793
Then the computer boots Tails 41.883
When I log in to a new session 11.701
And all notifications have disappeared 7.123
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.197
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:7.913
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 8.372
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.229
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.802
Then the computer boots Tails 39.209
When I log in to a new session 11.244
And all notifications have disappeared 7.645
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:44.966
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.070
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.938
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:9.065
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.494
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 10.318
And all notifications have disappeared 7.464
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.110
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.185
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.229
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.134
Tags: @product
1:6.318
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
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" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.151
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.012
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.671
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.080
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.076
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.216
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:2.985
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.659
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.231
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.685
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.203
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.168
Tags: @product
1:9.475
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=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.054
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.387
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.645
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.075
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.173