Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6379 15 May 2026, 11:35

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 10:22.776 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
27.781
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 0.805
Then the computer boots Tails 25.446
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.523
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.017
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 27.193
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.997
Then the computer boots Tails 26.305
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.014
Tags: @product @doc
28.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.579
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.339
Then I see a disk failure message 0.934
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.141
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.209
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.320
Then I see a disk failure message 1.860
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.990
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.473
Then I see a disk failure message 0.862
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.056
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.132
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 41.054
When I log in to a new session 11.508
And all notifications have disappeared 7.013
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.140
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
1:7.505
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.165
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.237
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.815
Then the computer boots Tails 39.752
When I log in to a new session 10.634
And all notifications have disappeared 7.454
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.179
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:45.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.062
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.969
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:10.420
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.579
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.056
When I log in to a new session 9.465
And all notifications have disappeared 7.077
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.180
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.202
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.262
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.172
Tags: @product
1:15.449
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.062
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.361
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.011
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.686
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.068
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.119
Tags: @product
1:3.213
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.393
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.923
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.523
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.138
Tags: @product
1:8.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.081
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.953
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.074
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.532
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.234
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.165