Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6116 03 Feb 2026, 19:31

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 11:45.130 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
30.762
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.161
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.029
Then the computer boots Tails 28.000
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.705
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.167
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.025
Then the computer boots Tails 27.795
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.022
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.167
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.034
Then the computer boots Tails 26.295
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product @doc
26.202
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.180
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.679
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.274
Then I see a disk failure message 1.330
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
31.691
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.173
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.347
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.337
Then I see a disk failure message 2.657
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
31.366
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.197
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.684
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.332
Then I see a disk failure message 2.526
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.646
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 12.317
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.363
And I power off the computer 0.503
When I start the computer 1.125
Then the computer boots Tails 42.542
When I log in to a new session 12.352
And all notifications have disappeared 8.244
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:14.600
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 11.077
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.344
And I power off the computer 0.303
When I start the computer 1.085
Then the computer boots Tails 41.319
When I log in to a new session 11.766
And all notifications have disappeared 8.503
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.188
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:57.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.179
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" 0.044
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 30.236
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.864
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.672
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.074
When I log in to a new session 10.220
And all notifications have disappeared 8.738
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.187
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.276
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.304
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.183
Tags: @product
1:21.924
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.187
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.046
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.055
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 27.814
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.802
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.554
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.077
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.057
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.316
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.182
Tags: @product
1:18.760
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.182
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" 0.047
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.045
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 28.755
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.729
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.587
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.066
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.061
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.275
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.181
Tags: @product
1:34.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.165
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" 0.043
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 28.241
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.058
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.588
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.065
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.053
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.312
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.188