Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6636 03 Sep 2026, 18:31

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 9:38.135 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
25.971
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.102
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 24.115
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.425
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.108
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.667
Then the computer boots Tails 22.175
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.838
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.146
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.811
Then the computer boots Tails 22.281
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product @doc
28.655
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.125
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.054
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.309
Then I see a disk failure message 1.024
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given a computer 0.240
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.633
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.423
Then I see a disk failure message 1.347
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.183
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.110
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.084
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.315
Then I see a disk failure message 0.918
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.866
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 9.451
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.251
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.665
Then the computer boots Tails 38.027
When I log in to a new session 9.508
And all notifications have disappeared 7.556
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.150
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product
1:1.840
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 9.150
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.261
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.712
Then the computer boots Tails 35.308
When I log in to a new session 8.652
And all notifications have disappeared 7.366
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.135
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:23.408
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.092
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.467
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.019
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.538
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.040
When I log in to a new session 7.677
And all notifications have disappeared 7.988
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.119
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.188
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.220
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.123
Tags: @product
1:6.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.130
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.030
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.839
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.057
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.218
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.032
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.143
Tags: @product
59.158
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_partitioning_errors=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.213
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.170
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.323
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.069
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.055
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.178
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.144
Tags: @product
1:18.636
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.135
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" 0.031
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.737
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.091
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.309
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.097
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.157
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126