Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6243 28 Mar 2026, 11:31

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 10:32.340 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
30.386
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.064
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.810
Then the computer boots Tails 26.334
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.278
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.096
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.764
Then the computer boots Tails 26.117
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.691
Then the computer boots Tails 24.761
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
30.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.063
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.668
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.256
Then I see a disk failure message 0.840
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.939
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.473
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.523
Then I see a disk failure message 0.983
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.421
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.065
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.385
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.335
Then I see a disk failure message 0.735
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.655
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.086
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.347
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.761
Then the computer boots Tails 47.292
When I log in to a new session 10.652
And all notifications have disappeared 7.122
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
1:6.004
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 7.429
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.326
And I power off the computer 0.263
When I start the computer 0.810
Then the computer boots Tails 39.604
When I log in to a new session 10.419
And all notifications have disappeared 6.988
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:57.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.069
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.787
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:19.924
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.574
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.048
When I log in to a new session 12.035
And all notifications have disappeared 6.945
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.140
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.208
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.225
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.181
Tags: @product
1:15.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.329
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.103
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.521
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.117
Tags: @product
59.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.097
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.987
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.490
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.157
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.114
Tags: @product
1:3.108
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.406
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.801
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.481
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.070
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.186
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.115