Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6383 18 May 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 9:34.892 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
28.609
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.062
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.884
Then the computer boots Tails 26.445
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.732
Then the computer boots Tails 24.866
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.024
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.758
Then the computer boots Tails 25.066
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
25.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.336
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.241
Then I see a disk failure message 1.571
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.229
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.104
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.809
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.395
Then I see a disk failure message 0.812
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.893
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.066
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.424
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.312
Then I see a disk failure message 1.491
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.164
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 8.542
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.250
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 1.032
Then the computer boots Tails 40.516
When I log in to a new session 11.724
And all notifications have disappeared 6.709
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.054
Tags: @product
1:6.838
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.244
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.228
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.797
Then the computer boots Tails 39.188
When I log in to a new session 10.887
And all notifications have disappeared 7.026
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.194
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:33.535
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.080
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.881
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.053
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.686
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.060
When I log in to a new session 10.190
And all notifications have disappeared 6.809
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.128
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.269
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.341
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.148
Tags: @product
1:4.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given a computer 0.072
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" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.447
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.943
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.617
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.145
Tags: @product
1:2.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
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" 1.035
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.360
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.074
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.501
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.117
Tags: @product
1:1.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.058
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.498
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.277
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.579
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.038
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.214
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.128