Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6692 25 Sep 2026, 12:12

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 8:47.750 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
24.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.653
Then the computer boots Tails 21.281
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given a computer 0.110
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.609
Then the computer boots Tails 21.340
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.073
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.077
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.643
Then the computer boots Tails 21.310
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
26.486
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.573
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.257
Then I see a disk failure message 0.642
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.032
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.069
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.587
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
Then I see a disk failure message 0.687
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
36.767
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 20.522
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.329
Then I see a disk failure message 0.713
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
57.532
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 8.056
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.180
And I power off the computer 0.244
When I start the computer 0.643
Then the computer boots Tails 33.280
When I log in to a new session 7.999
And all notifications have disappeared 7.025
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.097
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
56.548
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.920
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.185
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.572
Then the computer boots Tails 32.514
When I log in to a new session 7.788
And all notifications have disappeared 7.201
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:27.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.200
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.088
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.182
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 6.570
And all notifications have disappeared 7.429
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.101
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.195
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.270
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.112
Tags: @product
55.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.106
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.664
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.490
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.206
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.111
Tags: @product
57.169
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.746
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.894
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.180
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.110
Tags: @product
52.662
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=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.665
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 38.406
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.208
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.170
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.113