Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6669 15 Sep 2026, 13:51

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 8:55.327 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
24.974
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.696
Then the computer boots Tails 23.022
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.641
Then the computer boots Tails 22.106
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.325
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.073
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.601
Then the computer boots Tails 21.810
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.771
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.932
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.249
Then I see a disk failure message 0.641
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.422
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.318
Then I see a disk failure message 1.347
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.938
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.859
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.367
Then I see a disk failure message 1.254
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.896
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 8.682
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.245
And I power off the computer 0.245
When I start the computer 0.620
Then the computer boots Tails 36.352
When I log in to a new session 8.379
And all notifications have disappeared 7.256
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.110
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
59.676
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 7.832
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.223
And I power off the computer 0.238
When I start the computer 0.620
Then the computer boots Tails 34.765
When I log in to a new session 8.472
And all notifications have disappeared 7.404
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 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
1:26.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.732
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.491
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.205
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.033
When I log in to a new session 7.437
And all notifications have disappeared 7.031
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.098
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.199
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.234
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.161
Tags: @product
57.239
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.428
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.253
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.223
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.119
Tags: @product
56.751
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.436
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.575
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.359
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.040
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
57.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.079
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.512
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.063
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.202
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.030
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.024
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.123