Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6350 04 May 2026, 18:15

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 9:11.871 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
27.613
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 0.670
Then the computer boots Tails 25.387
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.776
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.047
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.707
Then the computer boots Tails 23.676
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.720
Then the computer boots Tails 23.674
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
25.658
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.581
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.305
Then I see a disk failure message 0.750
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.177
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.295
Then I see a disk failure message 1.446
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.049
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.111
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.363
Then I see a disk failure message 0.805
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.098
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 8.380
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.202
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.793
Then the computer boots Tails 37.908
When I log in to a new session 10.636
And all notifications have disappeared 6.737
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.174
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
1:2.400
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 7.698
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.207
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.718
Then the computer boots Tails 36.093
When I log in to a new session 10.500
And all notifications have disappeared 6.736
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.187
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:26.116
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.047
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" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.962
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.181
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.513
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 8.999
And all notifications have disappeared 6.748
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.132
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.228
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.198
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.139
Tags: @product
1:2.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.119
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.950
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.476
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:0.170
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.573
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.997
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.267
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.175
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.122
Tags: @product
59.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.291
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.114
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.550
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.039
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.162
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120