Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4399 16 May 2026, 11:00

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 9:21.308 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
26.358
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
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 24.300
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.735
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.674
Then the computer boots Tails 23.660
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.009
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.730
Then the computer boots Tails 23.917
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
25.080
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 7.233
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.244
Then I see a disk failure message 0.883
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.628
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.127
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.339
Then I see a disk failure message 1.456
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.068
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.202
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.325
Then I see a disk failure message 1.409
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.999
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 8.613
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.688
Then the computer boots Tails 36.682
When I log in to a new session 9.449
And all notifications have disappeared 6.962
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:3.600
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 7.714
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.213
And I power off the computer 0.268
When I start the computer 0.726
Then the computer boots Tails 37.390
When I log in to a new session 10.287
And all notifications have disappeared 6.849
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.138
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.031
Tags: @product
1:36.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
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" 12.948
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.893
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.499
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.043
And all notifications have disappeared 6.795
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.143
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.205
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.220
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.110
Tags: @product
1:10.212
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.905
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.464
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.515
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.177
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.110
Tags: @product
58.655
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
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" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.759
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.309
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.212
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.101
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.146
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.136
Tags: @product
1:2.075
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.747
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.738
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.235
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.071
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.109