Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6128 09 Feb 2026, 11:34

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 11:4.466 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
29.177
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.091
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.922
Then the computer boots Tails 26.655
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.768
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given a computer 0.070
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.405
Then the computer boots Tails 26.649
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.689
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.775
Then the computer boots Tails 25.489
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
32.240
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.060
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.180
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.276
Then I see a disk failure message 0.843
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.540
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.067
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.581
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.635
Then I see a disk failure message 1.559
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.635
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.067
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.061
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.309
Then I see a disk failure message 1.522
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.965
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.261
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.834
Then the computer boots Tails 50.153
When I log in to a new session 11.079
And all notifications have disappeared 7.278
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:7.857
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 7.736
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.234
And I power off the computer 0.296
When I start the computer 0.763
Then the computer boots Tails 39.390
When I log in to a new session 12.279
And all notifications have disappeared 7.001
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:56.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.072
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.852
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:19.162
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.502
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.053
When I log in to a new session 10.488
And all notifications have disappeared 7.690
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.129
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.181
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.217
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126
Tags: @product
1:19.909
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.066
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.718
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.547
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.069
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.176
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:8.627
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
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" 1.035
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.384
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.857
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.894
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.088
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.253
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.147
Tags: @product
1:19.641
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.730
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.799
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.699
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.061
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.201
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.178