Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21720-less-error-prone-emergency-release 2 20 Aug 2026, 13:36

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 9:10.714 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
26.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.087
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 22.658
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.693
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.108
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.653
Then the computer boots Tails 22.977
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
22.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.654
Then the computer boots Tails 20.502
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product @doc
28.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.105
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.253
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.269
Then I see a disk failure message 0.741
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.955
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.731
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.302
Then I see a disk failure message 1.395
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.313
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.751
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.355
Then I see a disk failure message 1.374
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.189
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 9.480
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.253
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.676
Then the computer boots Tails 36.737
When I log in to a new session 8.103
And all notifications have disappeared 7.558
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
59.850
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 8.491
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.228
And I power off the computer 0.242
When I start the computer 0.636
Then the computer boots Tails 34.680
When I log in to a new session 8.137
And all notifications have disappeared 7.295
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
1:29.162
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.097
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.585
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.654
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.428
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.066
When I log in to a new session 7.263
And all notifications have disappeared 7.489
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.132
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.175
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.216
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
1:11.960
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.094
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.657
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.658
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.241
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.196
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.136
Tags: @product
58.760
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.083
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" 0.043
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.493
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.228
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.093
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.125
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
56.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.090
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.447
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.264
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.474
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.097
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.183
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.192