Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_closed-issues-design-doc 2 28 May 2026, 18:01

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 10:22.330 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
31.562
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.083
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.883
Then the computer boots Tails 26.715
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.031
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.489
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given a computer 0.057
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.819
Then the computer boots Tails 27.032
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.021
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.020
Given a computer 0.083
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.919
Then the computer boots Tails 26.597
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
26.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.102
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.615
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.303
Then I see a disk failure message 0.757
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.049
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.552
Then I see a disk failure message 0.895
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
20.709
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.738
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.344
Then I see a disk failure message 1.586
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.478
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.952
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.249
And I power off the computer 0.270
When I start the computer 0.938
Then the computer boots Tails 42.836
When I log in to a new session 12.040
And all notifications have disappeared 6.964
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.218
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
Tags: @product
1:6.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.528
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.312
And I power off the computer 0.263
When I start the computer 0.801
Then the computer boots Tails 38.885
When I log in to a new session 11.046
And all notifications have disappeared 6.945
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.151
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:41.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.125
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.230
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:5.816
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.589
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.059
When I log in to a new session 10.409
And all notifications have disappeared 6.994
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.131
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.267
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.253
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.132
Tags: @product
1:14.787
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.074
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.739
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.020
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.609
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.072
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.195
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.140
Tags: @product
1:4.289
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.055
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.299
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.532
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.188
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.122
Tags: @product
1:15.430
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given a computer 0.080
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.446
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.932
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.560
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.080
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.247
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.158