Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6509 17 Jul 2026, 11:35

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 9:7.528 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
28.032
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.045
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.687
Then the computer boots Tails 25.708
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.493
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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 0.722
Then the computer boots Tails 24.578
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.503
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.045
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.678
Then the computer boots Tails 23.596
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product @doc
20.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.198
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.254
Then I see a disk failure message 0.755
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 11.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.980
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 7.070
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.722
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.316
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 6.824
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.316
Then I see a disk failure message 1.385
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.666
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 8.085
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.217
And I power off the computer 0.273
When I start the computer 0.750
Then the computer boots Tails 40.510
When I log in to a new session 10.013
And all notifications have disappeared 6.675
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.134
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:2.345
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 7.276
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.202
And I power off the computer 0.271
When I start the computer 0.732
Then the computer boots Tails 37.135
When I log in to a new session 9.814
And all notifications have disappeared 6.788
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.118
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:31.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
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" 12.838
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.883
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.499
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.041
When I log in to a new session 8.768
And all notifications have disappeared 6.479
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.112
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.177
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.206
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.113
Tags: @product
1:1.989
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=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" 13.094
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.991
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.544
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.038
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.200
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
57.149
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.046
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.709
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.617
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.487
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.183
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
58.071
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_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.021
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.474
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.272
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 0.150
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.112