Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6515 21 Jul 2026, 11:48

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 9:55.601 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
29.054
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.058
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.658
Then the computer boots Tails 25.021
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.074
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 0.791
Then the computer boots Tails 24.934
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.866
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.680
Then the computer boots Tails 24.836
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
27.250
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.066
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.493
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.307
Then I see a disk failure message 0.758
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.908
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.067
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.187
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.363
Then I see a disk failure message 0.840
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.507
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 7.119
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.333
Then I see a disk failure message 1.514
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.585
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 8.418
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.267
And I power off the computer 0.284
When I start the computer 0.739
Then the computer boots Tails 41.881
When I log in to a new session 10.635
And all notifications have disappeared 7.216
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
1:4.439
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 7.398
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.246
And I power off the computer 0.250
When I start the computer 0.712
Then the computer boots Tails 37.825
When I log in to a new session 10.852
And all notifications have disappeared 7.020
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:42.703
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.066
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.419
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.568
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 9.232
And all notifications have disappeared 7.277
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.120
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.187
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.211
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.122
Tags: @product
1:10.040
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.785
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.322
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.591
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.181
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.158
Tags: @product
59.355
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.530
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.808
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.661
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 0.176
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.200
Tags: @product
1:12.813
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.143
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.377
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.139
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.853
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.162
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121