Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6685 21 Sep 2026, 11:35

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 9:6.382 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
26.275
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.112
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.626
Then the computer boots Tails 24.284
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.850
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.713
Then the computer boots Tails 21.834
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.195
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.104
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.741
Then the computer boots Tails 22.152
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.966
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.098
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.888
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.313
Then I see a disk failure message 0.725
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.437
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.007
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
Then I see a disk failure message 0.652
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.545
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.401
Then I see a disk failure message 0.839
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.013
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 8.745
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.233
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.672
Then the computer boots Tails 35.753
When I log in to a new session 8.751
And all notifications have disappeared 7.487
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.107
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.057
Tags: @product
58.985
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.203
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.213
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.604
Then the computer boots Tails 33.661
When I log in to a new session 8.418
And all notifications have disappeared 7.513
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.120
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:22.175
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.094
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.396
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.245
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.403
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.032
When I log in to a new session 7.293
And all notifications have disappeared 7.169
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.120
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.189
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.179
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121
Tags: @product
1:13.846
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.114
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.042
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.056
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.279
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.945
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.222
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.032
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.117
Tags: @product
58.143
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.109
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" 0.037
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.476
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.056
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.169
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.182
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
57.096
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.160
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.348
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.223
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.148
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118