Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6374 14 May 2026, 11:21

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 9:31.290 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
27.610
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.048
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.704
Then the computer boots Tails 24.383
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.931
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.694
Then the computer boots Tails 23.238
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 24.153
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
24.569
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.299
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.263
Then I see a disk failure message 0.725
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.114
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.066
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.312
Then I see a disk failure message 1.447
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.672
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.047
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.012
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.359
Then I see a disk failure message 0.785
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.636
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 21.121
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.210
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.732
Then the computer boots Tails 38.758
When I log in to a new session 10.578
And all notifications have disappeared 6.848
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.916
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.453
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.222
And I power off the computer 0.265
When I start the computer 0.724
Then the computer boots Tails 35.652
When I log in to a new session 10.543
And all notifications have disappeared 6.922
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:26.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.175
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.360
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.489
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.076
When I log in to a new session 8.749
And all notifications have disappeared 6.742
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.120
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.165
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.211
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.107
Tags: @product
1:2.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.060
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.814
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.297
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.530
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.165
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.110
Tags: @product
1:0.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.022
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.482
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.157
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.112
Tags: @product
1:7.333
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.936
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.602
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.485
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.128