Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6380 15 May 2026, 11:44

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 10:9.666 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
26.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.067
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.728
Then the computer boots Tails 24.164
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.064
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.910
Then the computer boots Tails 27.031
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.511
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given a computer 0.130
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.816
Then the computer boots Tails 25.554
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.013
Tags: @product @doc
27.377
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given a computer 0.154
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.994
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.371
Then I see a disk failure message 0.920
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.515
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.325
Then I see a disk failure message 1.520
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.338
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.659
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.358
Then I see a disk failure message 1.690
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.846
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.391
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.201
And I power off the computer 0.275
When I start the computer 0.795
Then the computer boots Tails 41.765
When I log in to a new session 12.386
And all notifications have disappeared 6.865
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
1:7.706
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.521
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.780
Then the computer boots Tails 39.787
When I log in to a new session 10.829
And all notifications have disappeared 7.147
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product
1:32.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.087
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.213
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.888
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.656
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.058
When I log in to a new session 9.344
And all notifications have disappeared 6.901
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.236
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.177
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.222
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.134
Tags: @product
1:15.149
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given a computer 0.090
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.977
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.110
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.599
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.210
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.130
Tags: @product
1:4.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.115
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.601
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.501
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.844
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.233
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.147
Tags: @product
1:11.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.181
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.448
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.504
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.118