Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6661 13 Sep 2026, 11:27

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 8:45.876 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
27.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.084
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 23.798
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given a computer 0.094
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.644
Then the computer boots Tails 21.408
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.597
Then the computer boots Tails 21.291
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
26.650
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.073
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.673
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.219
Then I see a disk failure message 1.314
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
23.981
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 7.701
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
Then I see a disk failure message 0.607
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.062
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.570
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.335
Then I see a disk failure message 0.618
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
59.233
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 8.485
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.206
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.631
Then the computer boots Tails 34.521
When I log in to a new session 8.390
And all notifications have disappeared 6.651
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.093
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
56.428
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 7.778
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.236
And I power off the computer 0.241
When I start the computer 0.654
Then the computer boots Tails 32.572
When I log in to a new session 7.955
And all notifications have disappeared 6.874
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.111
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:27.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.105
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.372
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.420
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.189
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.032
When I log in to a new session 6.397
And all notifications have disappeared 6.323
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.095
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.211
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.296
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
1:3.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.098
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.038
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.711
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.457
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.170
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.049
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.199
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116
Tags: @product
54.003
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.078
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" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.693
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 39.770
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.208
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.125
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.113
Tags: @product
52.679
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_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.744
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 38.399
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.199
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.029
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.025
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.148
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.113