Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6663 14 Sep 2026, 11:41

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 9:5.908 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
24.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.086
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 22.987
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.150
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given a computer 0.165
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.744
Then the computer boots Tails 22.184
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
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 21.544
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.941
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.174
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.312
Then I see a disk failure message 0.675
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.377
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.129
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.812
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
Then I see a disk failure message 0.698
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.644
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.749
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.325
Then I see a disk failure message 1.299
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.683
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.239
And I power off the computer 0.249
When I start the computer 0.643
Then the computer boots Tails 36.224
When I log in to a new session 8.170
And all notifications have disappeared 8.109
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 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
58.109
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 8.162
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.211
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.699
Then the computer boots Tails 33.809
When I log in to a new session 8.508
And all notifications have disappeared 6.301
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:21.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.137
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.374
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.823
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.421
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.053
When I log in to a new session 7.169
And all notifications have disappeared 7.281
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.107
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.168
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.227
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
1:15.650
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.241
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.768
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.201
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.025
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.241
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
55.360
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_partitioning_errors=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.855
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.753
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.304
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.087
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.198
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
57.277
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_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.047
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.538
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.269
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.185
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.181