Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6504 14 Jul 2026, 11:51

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 9:57.430 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
27.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 0.748
Then the computer boots Tails 25.811
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.047
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.740
Then the computer boots Tails 23.926
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.044
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.724
Then the computer boots Tails 24.708
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
26.422
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.068
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.410
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.304
Then I see a disk failure message 0.919
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
20.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.544
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.408
Then I see a disk failure message 1.616
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.048
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.323
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.345
Then I see a disk failure message 0.742
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.010
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.269
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 41.807
When I log in to a new session 12.636
And all notifications have disappeared 7.198
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.180
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:5.490
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 8.236
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.242
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.730
Then the computer boots Tails 37.842
When I log in to a new session 11.054
And all notifications have disappeared 6.995
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
1:39.400
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.096
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.421
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:5.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.550
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.042
When I log in to a new session 8.983
And all notifications have disappeared 7.008
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.162
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.189
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.292
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
1:12.246
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.359
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.006
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.508
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.168
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.127
Tags: @product
1:5.714
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.787
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.589
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.117
Tags: @product
1:7.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.046
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.014
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.888
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.550
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.065
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.143