Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_security-issues 2 24 Aug 2026, 14:05

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 9:49.568 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
27.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.113
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.719
Then the computer boots Tails 23.843
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.152
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.699
Then the computer boots Tails 21.506
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.127
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given a computer 0.100
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.678
Then the computer boots Tails 23.897
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.094
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.128
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.295
Then I see a disk failure message 1.333
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.070
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.100
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.928
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.295
Then I see a disk failure message 1.308
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.883
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.185
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.468
Then I see a disk failure message 0.696
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.739
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.238
When I start the computer 0.669
Then the computer boots Tails 38.313
When I log in to a new session 9.063
And all notifications have disappeared 6.715
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
1:2.733
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 8.504
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.234
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.627
Then the computer boots Tails 35.982
When I log in to a new session 9.356
And all notifications have disappeared 7.642
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
1:37.552
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.116
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.162
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.228
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.404
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.048
When I log in to a new session 7.787
And all notifications have disappeared 7.137
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.115
# 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 1.299
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.123
Tags: @product
1:17.527
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.088
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.004
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.769
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.436
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.032
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.118
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
57.025
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.384
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.229
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.036
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.264
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.187
Tags: @product
1:7.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.124
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.423
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.011
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.205
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.142