Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_disclose-security-issues-post-release 2 27 May 2026, 18:38

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 9:56.143 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
29.075
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.738
Then the computer boots Tails 25.271
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.732
Then the computer boots Tails 26.769
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.727
Then the computer boots Tails 24.662
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
25.309
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.737
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.295
Then I see a disk failure message 0.779
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.482
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 7.358
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.343
Then I see a disk failure message 0.742
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.671
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.269
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.367
Then I see a disk failure message 0.820
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.968
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.990
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.269
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.782
Then the computer boots Tails 39.503
When I log in to a new session 11.140
And all notifications have disappeared 6.868
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:4.787
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 7.716
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.241
And I power off the computer 0.265
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 37.413
When I log in to a new session 11.568
And all notifications have disappeared 6.670
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.118
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:40.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.717
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:5.850
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.562
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.065
When I log in to a new session 10.203
And all notifications have disappeared 6.724
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.109
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.186
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.209
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.118
Tags: @product
1:10.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.841
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.824
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.594
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.216
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.139
Tags: @product
59.330
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given a computer 0.101
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.442
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.005
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.461
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.183
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.131
Tags: @product
1:7.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.050
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.261
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.004
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.541
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.258
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.152