Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 1 20 Aug 2026, 10:56

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 9:51.071 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
29.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.094
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.796
Then the computer boots Tails 25.585
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.103
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.763
Then the computer boots Tails 22.470
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.085
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.699
Then the computer boots Tails 21.976
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
28.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.408
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.278
Then I see a disk failure message 0.715
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.599
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.090
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.998
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.313
Then I see a disk failure message 1.394
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.605
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.190
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.425
Then I see a disk failure message 0.679
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.970
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 8.859
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.238
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.751
Then the computer boots Tails 38.764
When I log in to a new session 9.357
And all notifications have disappeared 7.607
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
1:0.825
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 8.322
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.267
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.749
Then the computer boots Tails 34.379
When I log in to a new session 9.447
And all notifications have disappeared 7.267
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.119
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
1:38.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.159
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:6.163
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.424
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 6.985
And all notifications have disappeared 6.642
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.112
# 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 1.169
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.137
Tags: @product
1:7.143
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=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.033
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.513
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.922
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.195
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.052
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.237
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.132
Tags: @product
1:0.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.136
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.689
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.793
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.261
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.203
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
1:16.011
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.102
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.413
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.791
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.310
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.064
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.222
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.164