Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6355 06 May 2026, 11:17

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 9:23.367 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
29.459
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.691
Then the computer boots Tails 26.058
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.843
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.758
Then the computer boots Tails 23.458
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.515
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
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 23.546
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
25.304
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.084
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.436
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.334
Then I see a disk failure message 0.717
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.108
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.002
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.411
Then I see a disk failure message 0.772
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.149
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.053
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.445
Then I see a disk failure message 1.484
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.643
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 8.987
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.257
And I power off the computer 0.265
When I start the computer 0.746
Then the computer boots Tails 38.825
When I log in to a new session 10.492
And all notifications have disappeared 6.918
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.146
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:2.683
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.369
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.177
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.715
Then the computer boots Tails 36.692
When I log in to a new session 10.611
And all notifications have disappeared 6.729
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:29.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.894
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.688
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.564
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.076
When I log in to a new session 9.171
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 1.178
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.215
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.122
Tags: @product
1:7.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.059
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.349
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.096
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.576
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.216
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.143
Tags: @product
57.274
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.061
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" 13.212
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.129
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.545
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.045
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.208
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120
Tags: @product
1:2.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.061
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" 13.549
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.009
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.436
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.152
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.131