Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6406 27 May 2026, 11:43

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 10:32.406 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
29.571
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.069
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.740
Then the computer boots Tails 27.098
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.024
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.676
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.075
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 25.380
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.085
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.760
Then the computer boots Tails 26.659
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
28.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.120
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.089
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.310
Then I see a disk failure message 0.856
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.912
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.119
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.569
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.447
Then I see a disk failure message 0.841
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.730
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.387
Then I see a disk failure message 1.614
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.386
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.394
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.269
And I power off the computer 0.289
When I start the computer 0.892
Then the computer boots Tails 43.793
When I log in to a new session 11.076
And all notifications have disappeared 7.487
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.178
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:7.740
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.243
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.328
And I power off the computer 0.286
When I start the computer 1.011
Then the computer boots Tails 38.767
When I log in to a new session 11.940
And all notifications have disappeared 7.012
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.145
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:44.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.626
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:6.266
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.563
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.061
When I log in to a new session 11.561
And all notifications have disappeared 7.070
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.160
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.276
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 2.190
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.154
Tags: @product
1:25.192
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.106
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.030
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:9.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.568
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.042
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.231
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.169
Tags: @product
1:7.392
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.103
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.246
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.600
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.042
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.230
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.132
Tags: @product
1:4.318
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given a computer 0.073
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.645
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.501
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.760
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.216
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.163