Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.12 3 02 Sep 2026, 18:16

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 9:46.938 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
28.284
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.104
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.739
Then the computer boots Tails 24.886
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.544
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.094
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.958
Then the computer boots Tails 24.126
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.527
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.093
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.710
Then the computer boots Tails 22.093
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.409
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.100
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.981
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.351
Then I see a disk failure message 1.428
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.093
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.274
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.380
Then I see a disk failure message 1.319
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.085
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.609
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.387
Then I see a disk failure message 1.426
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.826
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.663
Then the computer boots Tails 37.488
When I log in to a new session 9.146
And all notifications have disappeared 7.532
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
1:1.770
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.504
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.247
And I power off the computer 0.466
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 34.983
When I log in to a new session 8.936
And all notifications have disappeared 7.775
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.135
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:40.600
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
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" 1.034
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.138
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.042
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.366
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 8.056
And all notifications have disappeared 7.282
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.119
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.156
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.243
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.128
Tags: @product
1:18.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.061
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.758
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.196
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.051
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.137
Tags: @product
59.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.107
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.036
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.179
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.796
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.525
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.247
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.131
Tags: @product
57.255
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.103
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.953
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.447
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.490
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.138