Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6596 19 Aug 2026, 13:30

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 9:22.020 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
25.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.110
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.638
Then the computer boots Tails 23.763
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.615
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.638
Then the computer boots Tails 22.394
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.477
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.089
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.685
Then the computer boots Tails 21.683
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
24.760
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.860
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.305
Then I see a disk failure message 0.618
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.465
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.635
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.353
Then I see a disk failure message 1.264
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.172
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.801
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.366
Then I see a disk failure message 0.647
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.569
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 21.747
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.195
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.622
Then the computer boots Tails 35.876
When I log in to a new session 8.139
And all notifications have disappeared 7.621
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 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
58.948
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 8.224
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.236
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.660
Then the computer boots Tails 33.536
When I log in to a new session 7.955
And all notifications have disappeared 7.944
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 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:23.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.065
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.058
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.202
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 6.713
And all notifications have disappeared 7.224
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.110
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.186
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.197
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
1:9.755
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.079
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.965
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.174
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.253
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.140
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.131
Tags: @product
1:1.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.125
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.572
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.124
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.162
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.157
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.145
Tags: @product
1:0.338
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.099
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" 0.034
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.472
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.233
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.199
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.078
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.139