Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6565 07 Aug 2026, 11:32

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 9:27.195 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
26.162
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.595
Then the computer boots Tails 24.211
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.912
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.144
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.764
Then the computer boots Tails 22.030
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.034
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.079
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.727
Then the computer boots Tails 20.719
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
23.855
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.758
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.198
Then I see a disk failure message 1.266
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.831
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.617
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.318
Then I see a disk failure message 1.437
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.136
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.719
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.307
Then I see a disk failure message 1.372
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.990
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 8.425
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.303
And I power off the computer 0.288
When I start the computer 0.659
Then the computer boots Tails 37.661
When I log in to a new session 8.948
And all notifications have disappeared 6.555
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.142
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
59.868
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 8.378
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.268
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.647
Then the computer boots Tails 34.197
When I log in to a new session 8.556
And all notifications have disappeared 7.430
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
1:42.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.097
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.688
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:9.967
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.421
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.041
When I log in to a new session 7.616
And all notifications have disappeared 6.674
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.103
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.166
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.184
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
1:1.247
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.094
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.474
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.193
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.177
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.179
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.166
Tags: @product
59.587
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.102
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.050
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.723
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.162
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.087
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.373
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.132
Tags: @product
1:9.562
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.140
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.887
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.973
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.271
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.174
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.114