Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6751 17 Oct 2026, 11:29

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 8:51.309 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
24.360
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 0.574
Then the computer boots Tails 22.250
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.966
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.102
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.596
Then the computer boots Tails 21.240
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.097
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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 0.656
Then the computer boots Tails 21.399
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
27.078
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.788
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.253
Then I see a disk failure message 0.626
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.516
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.627
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.039
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.532
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.330
Then I see a disk failure message 0.603
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.187
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 8.613
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.215
And I power off the computer 0.244
When I start the computer 0.608
Then the computer boots Tails 35.680
When I log in to a new session 7.714
And all notifications have disappeared 6.991
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.112
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
57.407
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 7.995
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.222
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.593
Then the computer boots Tails 33.283
When I log in to a new session 7.775
And all notifications have disappeared 7.167
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 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
Tags: @product
1:21.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.078
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.837
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.454
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.192
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.058
When I log in to a new session 6.549
And all notifications have disappeared 7.937
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.112
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.172
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.226
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.112
Tags: @product
1:12.576
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.084
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.745
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.246
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.185
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.192
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
56.414
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=part_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" 13.248
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.192
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.029
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.110
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
59.271
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.081
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.321
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.359
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.198
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.175
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.113