Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6678 17 Sep 2026, 14:00

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 9:25.455 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
26.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.664
Then the computer boots Tails 24.147
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.519
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.650
Then the computer boots Tails 21.461
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.965
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.121
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.662
Then the computer boots Tails 22.808
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.736
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.078
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.222
Then I see a disk failure message 0.640
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.981
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.085
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.834
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.314
Then I see a disk failure message 1.300
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.098
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given a computer 0.095
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.710
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.296
Then I see a disk failure message 0.650
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.630
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.228
And I power off the computer 0.241
When I start the computer 0.692
Then the computer boots Tails 36.635
When I log in to a new session 8.622
And all notifications have disappeared 7.192
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.150
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
1:1.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.522
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.273
And I power off the computer 0.244
When I start the computer 0.780
Then the computer boots Tails 34.967
When I log in to a new session 8.889
And all notifications have disappeared 7.182
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.138
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product
1:41.466
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.797
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:8.602
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.415
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.051
When I log in to a new session 7.357
And all notifications have disappeared 7.518
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.102
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.246
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.232
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.191
Tags: @product
1:6.162
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.458
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.135
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.242
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.031
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.025
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130
Tags: @product
1:0.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.105
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.332
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.988
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.450
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.144
Tags: @product
56.938
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.194
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.205
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.211
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.037
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.024
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.124
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.127