Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6075 17 Jan 2026, 11:40

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 9:10.099 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
27.140
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.052
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.753
Then the computer boots Tails 23.952
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 0.729
Then the computer boots Tails 21.724
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.034
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.689
Then the computer boots Tails 22.947
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product @doc
24.893
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.405
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.245
Then I see a disk failure message 0.705
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
19.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.045
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.148
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.294
Then I see a disk failure message 1.406
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.048
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.136
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.298
Then I see a disk failure message 0.920
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.192
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.604
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.197
And I power off the computer 0.250
When I start the computer 0.772
Then the computer boots Tails 36.919
When I log in to a new session 9.328
And all notifications have disappeared 6.966
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.724
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.221
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.737
Then the computer boots Tails 35.408
When I log in to a new session 9.723
And all notifications have disappeared 6.893
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
1:32.609
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.046
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.207
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.497
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.553
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.040
When I log in to a new session 8.705
And all notifications have disappeared 7.033
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.114
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.167
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.211
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
1:6.240
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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" 0.028
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.082
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.219
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.147
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127
Tags: @product
1:0.729
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.046
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.726
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.435
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.268
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.147
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.140
Tags: @product
59.917
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.823
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.294
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.498
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.148
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118