Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6586 17 Aug 2026, 17:59

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 9:31.228 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
27.523
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.112
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 23.879
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.566
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.079
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.823
Then the computer boots Tails 23.119
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.126
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.703
Then the computer boots Tails 22.160
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
29.035
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.024
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.367
Then I see a disk failure message 0.699
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.883
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.105
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.072
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
Then I see a disk failure message 0.638
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.962
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.383
Then I see a disk failure message 1.342
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.550
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 9.128
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.226
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.639
Then the computer boots Tails 37.547
When I log in to a new session 9.048
And all notifications have disappeared 7.592
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
1:1.281
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 8.286
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.247
And I power off the computer 0.240
When I start the computer 0.657
Then the computer boots Tails 35.493
When I log in to a new session 8.638
And all notifications have disappeared 7.609
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.103
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
1:30.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.746
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.272
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.511
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 7.458
And all notifications have disappeared 6.664
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.105
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.298
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.266
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.162
Tags: @product
1:14.509
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.110
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.027
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.321
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.489
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.207
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.088
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
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 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.133
Tags: @product
58.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.126
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.861
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.204
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.243
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.128
Tags: @product
58.678
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.121
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" 0.032
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.860
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.127
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.228
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.031
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.210
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.137