Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_closed-issues-design-doc 1 28 May 2026, 17:57

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 10:30.891 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
32.047
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.124
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.055
Then the computer boots Tails 27.724
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given a computer 0.089
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.877
Then the computer boots Tails 27.434
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.377
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.739
Then the computer boots Tails 26.502
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 4.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
Tags: @product @doc
27.331
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.949
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.290
Then I see a disk failure message 0.811
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.521
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.503
Then I see a disk failure message 1.664
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.070
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.278
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.404
Then I see a disk failure message 1.465
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.664
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 10.217
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.337
And I power off the computer 0.292
When I start the computer 1.030
Then the computer boots Tails 42.480
When I log in to a new session 12.883
And all notifications have disappeared 7.214
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
1:11.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.444
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.220
And I power off the computer 0.271
When I start the computer 0.777
Then the computer boots Tails 41.067
When I log in to a new session 13.070
And all notifications have disappeared 7.128
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:33.656
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.067
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.715
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.019
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.730
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 9.504
And all notifications have disappeared 7.404
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.154
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.197
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.775
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.157
Tags: @product
1:19.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.090
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.094
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.520
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.610
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.220
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.153
Tags: @product
1:2.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.086
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.910
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.031
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.520
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.187
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.123
Tags: @product
1:18.641
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.067
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.635
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.555
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.125