Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6725 06 Oct 2026, 11:55

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 9:24.399 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
26.493
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.086
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.607
Then the computer boots Tails 24.243
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.543
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given a computer 0.119
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.750
Then the computer boots Tails 22.503
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.952
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.095
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.699
Then the computer boots Tails 21.650
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
22.198
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.925
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.279
Then I see a disk failure message 0.703
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.851
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.308
Then I see a disk failure message 1.291
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.522
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.652
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.283
Then I see a disk failure message 0.609
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.394
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.703
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.250
And I power off the computer 0.250
When I start the computer 0.685
Then the computer boots Tails 36.405
When I log in to a new session 8.682
And all notifications have disappeared 7.292
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.119
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
58.888
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.456
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.253
And I power off the computer 0.249
When I start the computer 0.666
Then the computer boots Tails 33.779
When I log in to a new session 8.555
And all notifications have disappeared 6.761
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:27.756
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.526
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.092
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.413
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 6.784
And all notifications have disappeared 7.192
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.177
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.160
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.216
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126
Tags: @product
1:15.312
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 1.435
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.172
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.097
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.196
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.061
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.240
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
55.649
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.113
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" 12.918
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.177
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.210
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.032
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.124
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
1:11.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.093
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.056
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.822
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.172
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.034
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116