Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6395 21 May 2026, 11:36

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 10:32.874 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
30.459
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.065
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.760
Then the computer boots Tails 27.926
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.889
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.114
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.929
Then the computer boots Tails 27.355
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.097
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.795
Then the computer boots Tails 26.887
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.090
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.789
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.328
Then I see a disk failure message 0.804
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.482
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.062
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.069
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.379
Then I see a disk failure message 1.594
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.173
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.406
Then I see a disk failure message 1.718
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.972
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 9.380
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.280
And I power off the computer 0.275
When I start the computer 0.773
Then the computer boots Tails 42.607
When I log in to a new session 11.320
And all notifications have disappeared 7.124
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.187
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
Tags: @product
1:9.409
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.919
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.321
And I power off the computer 0.485
When I start the computer 0.782
Then the computer boots Tails 40.153
When I log in to a new session 12.644
And all notifications have disappeared 6.967
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
1:48.262
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_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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.459
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.642
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.104
When I log in to a new session 10.074
And all notifications have disappeared 7.216
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.183
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.208
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.764
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.131
Tags: @product
1:9.652
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given a computer 0.076
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.017
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.644
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.588
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.065
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.047
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.178
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.146
Tags: @product
1:5.378
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.092
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.183
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.102
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.532
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.075
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.284
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.166
Tags: @product
1:13.251
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=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.128
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.055
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.670
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.186
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.317