Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-snapshot-restore-improvements 4 21 Aug 2026, 22:02

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 8:45.666 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
25.144
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.639
Then the computer boots Tails 23.280
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.784
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 0.718
Then the computer boots Tails 21.883
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.375
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.070
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.597
Then the computer boots Tails 21.501
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
24.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.095
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 5.163
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.286
Then I see a disk failure message 0.683
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.414
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 4.705
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.653
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.659
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 4.697
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.296
Then I see a disk failure message 1.238
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
59.253
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 5.424
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.205
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.569
Then the computer boots Tails 36.447
When I log in to a new session 8.727
And all notifications have disappeared 7.491
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
58.904
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5.536
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.209
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.590
Then the computer boots Tails 36.429
When I log in to a new session 8.849
And all notifications have disappeared 6.923
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.116
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:30.154
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.074
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.714
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.609
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.485
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.038
When I log in to a new session 7.567
And all notifications have disappeared 7.055
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.141
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.229
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.196
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126
Tags: @product
58.519
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.928
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.800
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.286
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.109
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.225
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130
Tags: @product
57.500
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.102
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.730
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.229
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.204
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130
Tags: @product
57.391
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.219
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.513
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.209
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.058
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.145