Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6211 17 Mar 2026, 11:21

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 10:27.885 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
32.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.106
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.995
Then the computer boots Tails 28.290
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.276
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.087
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.029
Then the computer boots Tails 27.056
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.552
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.095
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.864
Then the computer boots Tails 25.238
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
28.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.062
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.163
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.281
Then I see a disk failure message 0.988
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.202
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.084
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.873
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.365
Then I see a disk failure message 1.556
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
22.312
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.577
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.375
Then I see a disk failure message 1.562
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.927
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.182
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.235
And I power off the computer 0.273
When I start the computer 0.872
Then the computer boots Tails 46.642
When I log in to a new session 11.983
And all notifications have disappeared 7.576
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:8.987
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 8.461
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.338
And I power off the computer 0.269
When I start the computer 0.820
Then the computer boots Tails 39.348
When I log in to a new session 11.900
And all notifications have disappeared 7.679
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:48.993
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.078
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.751
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:9.767
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.757
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 11.352
And all notifications have disappeared 8.055
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.178
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.215
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.749
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:14.459
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.095
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.403
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.856
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.629
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.051
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.331
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.135
Tags: @product
1:2.375
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.077
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" 0.016
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.605
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.576
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.191
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:11.399
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.305
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.636
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.221
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.142