Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6388 20 May 2026, 11:32

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 9:55.026 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
28.128
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.683
Then the computer boots Tails 25.198
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.150
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.807
Then the computer boots Tails 24.372
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.177
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.705
Then the computer boots Tails 24.962
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
Tags: @product @doc
25.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.540
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.257
Then I see a disk failure message 0.744
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.051
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.077
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.324
Then I see a disk failure message 1.610
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.252
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.335
Then I see a disk failure message 1.465
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.281
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.228
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 39.558
When I log in to a new session 11.623
And all notifications have disappeared 6.769
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.131
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:6.580
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 7.665
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.202
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.700
Then the computer boots Tails 38.853
When I log in to a new session 12.046
And all notifications have disappeared 6.695
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:38.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.063
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.826
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.611
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.542
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.063
When I log in to a new session 8.996
And all notifications have disappeared 6.935
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 1.206
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.242
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.136
Tags: @product
1:14.784
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.033
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.398
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.468
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.527
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.187
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.116
Tags: @product
59.872
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.077
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.537
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.402
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.542
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.047
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.149
Tags: @product
1:9.990
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.069
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.994
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.981
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.615
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 0.205
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.115