Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6385 19 May 2026, 14:01

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 10:14.650 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
29.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.073
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.753
Then the computer boots Tails 26.737
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.109
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given a computer 0.105
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.852
Then the computer boots Tails 25.519
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.047
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.076
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.727
Then the computer boots Tails 25.751
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.245
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.714
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.309
Then I see a disk failure message 0.792
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.124
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.062
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.662
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.404
Then I see a disk failure message 0.955
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.257
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.512
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.343
Then I see a disk failure message 1.582
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.781
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 8.646
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.281
And I power off the computer 0.269
When I start the computer 0.861
Then the computer boots Tails 42.531
When I log in to a new session 11.776
And all notifications have disappeared 7.145
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.262
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.012
Tags: @product
1:8.329
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.373
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.257
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.797
Then the computer boots Tails 39.327
When I log in to a new session 12.093
And all notifications have disappeared 7.085
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
1:39.766
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.123
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.363
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.999
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.510
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.048
When I log in to a new session 10.482
And all notifications have disappeared 7.073
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.133
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.182
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.797
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.119
Tags: @product
1:7.913
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.082
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.015
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 51.796
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.634
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.110
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.111
Tags: @product
1:7.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.684
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.255
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.509
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.038
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.271
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.124
Tags: @product
1:11.153
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.071
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.872
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.171
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.592
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.322
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.163