Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6583 17 Aug 2026, 11:34

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 10:11.863 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
25.962
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.091
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.672
Then the computer boots Tails 24.163
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.891
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.686
Then the computer boots Tails 24.440
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.076
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.104
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.780
Then the computer boots Tails 23.197
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
28.505
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.811
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.274
Then I see a disk failure message 1.053
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.045
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.113
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.225
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.305
Then I see a disk failure message 1.303
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.596
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.386
Then I see a disk failure message 0.717
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.967
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.239
When I start the computer 0.665
Then the computer boots Tails 37.146
When I log in to a new session 8.664
And all notifications have disappeared 7.160
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.138
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
1:1.061
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 8.513
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.233
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.667
Then the computer boots Tails 35.373
When I log in to a new session 8.609
And all notifications have disappeared 7.238
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.004
Tags: @product
1:35.153
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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" 0.031
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.249
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.117
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.523
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.062
When I log in to a new session 8.826
And all notifications have disappeared 7.213
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.107
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.179
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.712
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126
Tags: @product
1:25.870
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.096
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.914
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:10.168
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.423
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.041
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.103
Tags: @product
1:9.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.109
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" 0.038
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.761
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.975
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.455
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.062
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.196
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.090
Tags: @product
1:13.778
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=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.485
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.704
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.230
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.037
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.083