Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6086 22 Jan 2026, 17:19

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 13:27.122 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
35.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.168
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.098
Then the computer boots Tails 28.486
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 6.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.181
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.079
Then the computer boots Tails 28.441
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.178
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.104
Then the computer boots Tails 28.686
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
34.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.162
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.966
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.344
Then I see a disk failure message 1.346
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
32.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.175
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.180
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.385
Then I see a disk failure message 2.568
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
33.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.035
Given a computer 0.294
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.339
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.354
Then I see a disk failure message 2.527
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.384
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 13.488
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.479
And I power off the computer 0.304
When I start the computer 1.139
Then the computer boots Tails 47.354
When I log in to a new session 12.847
And all notifications have disappeared 8.480
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.273
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product
1:16.833
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.767
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.297
And I power off the computer 0.295
When I start the computer 1.066
Then the computer boots Tails 43.671
When I log in to a new session 12.003
And all notifications have disappeared 8.508
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.211
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:18.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.167
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" 0.042
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.046
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 30.815
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:23.062
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.677
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.072
When I log in to a new session 10.186
And all notifications have disappeared 8.734
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.177
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.267
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.834
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.205
Tags: @product
1:57.953
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.172
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.047
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.045
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 40.972
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:14.578
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.682
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.069
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.062
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.311
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.181
Tags: @product
1:29.688
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.179
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" 0.046
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.201
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.308
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.865
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.608
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.082
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.087
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.297
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.189
Tags: @product
1:40.725
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.191
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" 0.048
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.043
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 40.022
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.675
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.078
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.052
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.285
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.180