Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6386 19 May 2026, 14:04

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 10:15.919 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
30.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.016
Given a computer 0.122
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.909
Then the computer boots Tails 25.827
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.707
Then the computer boots Tails 26.705
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.322
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.114
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.962
Then the computer boots Tails 26.994
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
26.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.065
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.076
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.304
Then I see a disk failure message 0.860
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.442
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.105
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.864
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.317
Then I see a disk failure message 1.539
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.928
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.016
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.487
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.364
Then I see a disk failure message 1.487
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.536
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.458
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.294
And I power off the computer 0.262
When I start the computer 0.822
Then the computer boots Tails 42.457
When I log in to a new session 12.007
And all notifications have disappeared 7.109
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.119
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
1:10.136
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 7.970
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.210
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 1.124
Then the computer boots Tails 40.750
When I log in to a new session 12.438
And all notifications have disappeared 7.224
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.151
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:46.999
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.095
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.679
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:12.704
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.529
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.058
When I log in to a new session 9.144
And all notifications have disappeared 7.099
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.167
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.217
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.245
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.133
Tags: @product
1:3.509
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.070
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.017
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.039
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.756
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.891
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.490
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.115
Tags: @product
1:1.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.812
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.539
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.539
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.136
Tags: @product
1:11.588
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.039
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.504
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.099
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.557
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.211
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.131