Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6495 10 Jul 2026, 11:36

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 9:29.715 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
26.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.746
Then the computer boots Tails 24.087
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.995
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.048
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.731
Then the computer boots Tails 22.937
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.047
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.703
Then the computer boots Tails 22.084
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
24.283
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.046
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.973
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.223
Then I see a disk failure message 0.759
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.381
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.043
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.991
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.322
Then I see a disk failure message 1.559
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.176
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.285
Then I see a disk failure message 1.574
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.519
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.572
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.730
Then the computer boots Tails 39.091
When I log in to a new session 10.745
And all notifications have disappeared 6.763
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.126
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:3.436
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.468
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.237
And I power off the computer 0.249
When I start the computer 0.711
Then the computer boots Tails 37.008
When I log in to a new session 10.863
And all notifications have disappeared 6.760
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:36.999
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.045
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.216
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.423
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.518
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.313
And all notifications have disappeared 6.770
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.191
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.221
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.226
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
1:6.337
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.223
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.309
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.493
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.152
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
57.663
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.094
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.927
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.726
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.518
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.276
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.139
Tags: @product
1:8.832
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
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" 1.047
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.321
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.508
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.595
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.209
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130