Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6417 02 Jun 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 9:14.170 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
26.262
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 0.709
Then the computer boots Tails 24.310
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.722
Then the computer boots Tails 24.047
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.473
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.707
Then the computer boots Tails 24.536
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
22.917
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.315
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.381
Then I see a disk failure message 0.731
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 13.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.821
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.134
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.348
Then I see a disk failure message 0.787
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.158
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.227
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.326
Then I see a disk failure message 1.459
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.047
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 8.364
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.210
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.718
Then the computer boots Tails 38.336
When I log in to a new session 10.287
And all notifications have disappeared 6.737
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.026
Tags: @product
1:0.823
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.599
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.225
And I power off the computer 0.269
When I start the computer 0.695
Then the computer boots Tails 35.154
When I log in to a new session 10.139
And all notifications have disappeared 6.579
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:335 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:32.708
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.081
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.319
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.520
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.479
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.051
When I log in to a new session 8.565
And all notifications have disappeared 7.066
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.172
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.196
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.224
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.139
Tags: @product
1:5.995
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.061
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.113
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.502
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
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:335 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.131
Tags: @product
57.118
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.983
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.245
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.119
Tags: @product
1:0.053
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.543
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.945
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.226
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.172
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.110