Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_security-issues 1 24 Aug 2026, 13:11

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 9:50.980 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
25.525
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.132
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.692
Then the computer boots Tails 21.839
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.646
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.098
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.683
Then the computer boots Tails 22.790
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.102
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.680
Then the computer boots Tails 22.636
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
28.114
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.105
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 1.315
Then I see a disk failure message 0.665
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.592
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.086
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.347
Then I see a disk failure message 1.322
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.742
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.086
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.907
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.360
Then I see a disk failure message 1.442
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.960
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.203
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.620
Then the computer boots Tails 39.124
When I log in to a new session 10.029
And all notifications have disappeared 7.048
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.179
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
1:4.813
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.417
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.192
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 38.436
When I log in to a new session 9.529
And all notifications have disappeared 7.091
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
1:31.182
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.097
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.959
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.411
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.432
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.039
When I log in to a new session 8.745
And all notifications have disappeared 7.814
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.182
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.204
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.241
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.154
Tags: @product
1:14.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.106
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.658
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.371
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.298
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.103
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.231
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.201
Tags: @product
59.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.144
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.035
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.580
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.539
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.282
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.034
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.142
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.152
Tags: @product
1:13.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given a computer 0.127
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" 0.026
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.354
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.751
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.222
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.210
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.178