Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6740 12 Oct 2026, 16:06

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 9:37.552 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
24.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.087
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.633
Then the computer boots Tails 22.515
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.699
Then the computer boots Tails 23.055
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.610
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.098
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.639
Then the computer boots Tails 23.510
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.718
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.283
Then I see a disk failure message 0.853
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.801
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.437
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.337
Then I see a disk failure message 1.361
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.597
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.072
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.800
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.330
Then I see a disk failure message 1.610
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.301
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.237
And I power off the computer 0.265
When I start the computer 0.912
Then the computer boots Tails 36.875
When I log in to a new session 9.151
And all notifications have disappeared 7.799
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
1:4.979
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.743
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.241
When I start the computer 0.688
Then the computer boots Tails 37.301
When I log in to a new session 9.405
And all notifications have disappeared 8.208
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:25.866
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.100
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.076
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.873
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.244
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 9.103
And all notifications have disappeared 6.904
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.090
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.173
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.192
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.152
Tags: @product
1:13.920
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.091
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.026
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.241
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.890
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.425
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.032
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.043
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.135
Tags: @product
1:0.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.086
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.911
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.552
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.207
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.196
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130
Tags: @product
1:7.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.096
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.859
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.274
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.147
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.127