Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4398 15 May 2026, 11:49

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 9:8.410 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
27.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.051
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.674
Then the computer boots Tails 23.573
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.484
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.048
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 23.493
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.876
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.059
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.715
Then the computer boots Tails 23.695
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
24.486
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.076
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.274
Then I see a disk failure message 0.734
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.556
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.047
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.289
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.339
Then I see a disk failure message 1.399
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.889
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.089
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.351
Then I see a disk failure message 0.720
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.753
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.323
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.236
And I power off the computer 0.290
When I start the computer 0.787
Then the computer boots Tails 38.338
When I log in to a new session 9.854
And all notifications have disappeared 6.777
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.139
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.985
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.523
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.274
When I start the computer 0.749
Then the computer boots Tails 35.985
When I log in to a new session 10.553
And all notifications have disappeared 6.545
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:30.123
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.878
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.467
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.512
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.041
When I log in to a new session 8.940
And all notifications have disappeared 6.703
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 1.195
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.190
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.128
Tags: @product
1:1.197
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.880
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.459
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.188
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.114
Tags: @product
59.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.697
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.647
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.223
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.112
Tags: @product
57.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.042
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.165
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.502
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.061
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.177
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.113