Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6633 03 Sep 2026, 15:21

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 9:26.826 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
25.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.675
Then the computer boots Tails 23.773
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.909
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 0.729
Then the computer boots Tails 23.782
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.560
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.747
Then the computer boots Tails 23.389
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
28.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.110
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.144
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.270
Then I see a disk failure message 0.756
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.678
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.139
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.966
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.372
Then I see a disk failure message 0.705
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.378
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.093
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.757
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.325
Then I see a disk failure message 1.374
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.116
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 9.162
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.280
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.752
Then the computer boots Tails 38.670
When I log in to a new session 9.530
And all notifications have disappeared 8.178
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.280
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
Tags: @product
1:1.489
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 8.746
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.249
And I power off the computer 0.242
When I start the computer 0.643
Then the computer boots Tails 35.238
When I log in to a new session 8.468
And all notifications have disappeared 7.733
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.160
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:30.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.087
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.046
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.085
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.901
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.433
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.056
When I log in to a new session 8.965
And all notifications have disappeared 7.093
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.146
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.207
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.251
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
1:8.153
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.099
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.649
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.749
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.249
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.065
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.252
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.135
Tags: @product
1:0.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.716
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.758
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.314
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.212
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
59.654
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.471
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.915
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.678
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.207
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.243
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.132