Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6614 29 Aug 2026, 11:31

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 9:36.030 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
26.591
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.095
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.662
Then the computer boots Tails 23.539
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.093
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.578
Then the computer boots Tails 22.190
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.316
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.704
Then the computer boots Tails 21.917
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
27.196
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.858
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.257
Then I see a disk failure message 0.609
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.069
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 7.435
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
Then I see a disk failure message 0.716
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.952
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.344
Then I see a disk failure message 0.645
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.540
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 8.539
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.203
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.587
Then the computer boots Tails 35.586
When I log in to a new session 8.625
And all notifications have disappeared 7.594
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:1.286
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 8.098
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.259
And I power off the computer 0.238
When I start the computer 0.607
Then the computer boots Tails 36.497
When I log in to a new session 8.225
And all notifications have disappeared 7.236
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.117
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:35.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.080
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.151
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:3.186
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.422
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.058
When I log in to a new session 7.853
And all notifications have disappeared 6.953
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.118
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.210
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.202
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
1:2.863
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_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.268
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.979
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.212
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.173
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
1:2.975
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=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.356
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.106
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.189
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.028
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121
Tags: @product
1:14.840
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.085
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" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.257
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.023
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.223
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.033
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.134
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119