Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6124 06 Feb 2026, 07:05

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 9:4.852 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
25.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.746
Then the computer boots Tails 23.632
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.051
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 23.050
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.706
Then the computer boots Tails 22.866
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
24.943
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.291
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.255
Then I see a disk failure message 0.719
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.013
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.224
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
Then I see a disk failure message 0.704
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
19.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.149
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.337
Then I see a disk failure message 0.719
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.330
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 8.474
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.206
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.674
Then the computer boots Tails 36.853
When I log in to a new session 9.731
And all notifications have disappeared 7.006
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
59.632
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.510
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.178
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.762
Then the computer boots Tails 34.012
When I log in to a new session 9.928
And all notifications have disappeared 6.861
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.120
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:27.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.178
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.883
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.488
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.042
When I log in to a new session 7.918
And all notifications have disappeared 7.173
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.122
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.168
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.203
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120
Tags: @product
1:8.166
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.038
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.929
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.598
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.288
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.117
Tags: @product
55.714
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.041
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.144
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.208
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.160
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.117
Tags: @product
1:5.792
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.109
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.132
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.247
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
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 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.155