Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6396 21 May 2026, 11:53

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 10:32.410 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
32.172
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.109
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.762
Then the computer boots Tails 28.261
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.030
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
33.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.074
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.777
Then the computer boots Tails 27.976
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 4.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.164
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.864
Then the computer boots Tails 25.833
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
26.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.125
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.311
Then I see a disk failure message 0.917
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.732
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.111
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.983
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.332
Then I see a disk failure message 1.471
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
20.603
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.384
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.393
Then I see a disk failure message 1.948
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.731
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 9.570
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.471
And I power off the computer 0.590
When I start the computer 0.950
Then the computer boots Tails 46.117
When I log in to a new session 11.368
And all notifications have disappeared 7.477
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.177
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:10.560
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 8.319
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.337
And I power off the computer 0.270
When I start the computer 0.870
Then the computer boots Tails 42.190
When I log in to a new session 10.711
And all notifications have disappeared 7.705
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.021
Tags: @product
1:39.889
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.069
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.974
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.300
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.756
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.071
When I log in to a new session 11.174
And all notifications have disappeared 7.042
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.358
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.321
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.784
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.131
Tags: @product
1:16.323
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given a computer 0.085
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.550
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.337
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.919
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.071
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.275
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.170
Tags: @product
1:8.355
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.015
Given a computer 0.106
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.032
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.887
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.474
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.527
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.207
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.133
Tags: @product
1:11.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.083
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.741
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.163
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.607
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.038
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.240
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.150