Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6739 12 Oct 2026, 13:09

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 10:31.852 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
26.013
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.110
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 23.904
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.463
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.156
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.686
Then the computer boots Tails 23.080
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.116
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.715
Then the computer boots Tails 24.350
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
28.452
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.296
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.281
Then I see a disk failure message 0.716
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.103
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.401
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.307
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.150
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.105
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.423
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.400
Then I see a disk failure message 0.660
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.471
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 9.423
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.220
And I power off the computer 0.244
When I start the computer 0.678
Then the computer boots Tails 38.635
When I log in to a new session 9.723
And all notifications have disappeared 7.419
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
1:4.138
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 8.169
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.347
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.886
Then the computer boots Tails 37.819
When I log in to a new session 8.730
And all notifications have disappeared 7.791
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
1:44.708
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
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" 14.440
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:10.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.391
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.036
When I log in to a new session 7.807
And all notifications have disappeared 7.488
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.104
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.171
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.397
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.111
Tags: @product
1:18.622
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.131
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.056
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.836
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.010
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.201
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.073
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.241
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.095
Tags: @product
1:12.286
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.124
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" 0.029
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.964
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.497
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.394
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.074
Tags: @product
1:21.764
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.095
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.303
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:5.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.473
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.074
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.231
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.102