Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6112 01 Feb 2026, 11:36

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 10:24.007 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
26.815
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 24.713
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.814
Then the computer boots Tails 24.496
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.628
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.064
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.821
Then the computer boots Tails 24.628
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
29.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.649
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.368
Then I see a disk failure message 0.801
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.956
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.703
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.332
Then I see a disk failure message 0.734
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.491
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.374
Then I see a disk failure message 1.405
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.035
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 9.606
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.891
Then the computer boots Tails 50.585
When I log in to a new session 10.108
And all notifications have disappeared 7.245
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:6.131
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 7.972
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.226
And I power off the computer 0.315
When I start the computer 0.804
Then the computer boots Tails 39.622
When I log in to a new session 9.479
And all notifications have disappeared 7.551
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:58.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.256
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:23.078
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.683
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.052
When I log in to a new session 9.658
And all notifications have disappeared 7.039
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.211
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.221
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.272
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120
Tags: @product
1:7.143
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.084
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" 1.068
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.934
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.512
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.207
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121
Tags: @product
1:1.890
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=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.092
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.920
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.498
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.072
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.194
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121
Tags: @product
1:9.092
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.287
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.884
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.603
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 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.195