Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6571 10 Aug 2026, 13:34

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 9:28.300 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
25.358
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.118
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.723
Then the computer boots Tails 23.388
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.114
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.676
Then the computer boots Tails 22.793
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.290
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.193
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.857
Then the computer boots Tails 24.007
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product @doc
26.218
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given a computer 0.095
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.909
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.318
Then I see a disk failure message 0.668
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.528
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.333
Then I see a disk failure message 1.533
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given a computer 0.112
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.094
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.310
Then I see a disk failure message 1.384
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.913
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 9.323
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.259
And I power off the computer 0.241
When I start the computer 0.685
Then the computer boots Tails 38.036
When I log in to a new session 9.430
And all notifications have disappeared 7.700
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.229
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
Tags: @product
1:0.531
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 8.451
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.243
And I power off the computer 0.275
When I start the computer 0.654
Then the computer boots Tails 34.695
When I log in to a new session 8.372
And all notifications have disappeared 7.689
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:30.413
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.086
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.260
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.866
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.442
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.046
When I log in to a new session 8.499
And all notifications have disappeared 7.549
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.150
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.231
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.231
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
1:12.202
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_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.975
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.303
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.422
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.101
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.224
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
55.965
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.086
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" 0.023
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.981
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.226
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.247
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.058
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.257
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.149
Tags: @product
1:3.602
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.126
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" 0.028
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.605
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.264
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.275
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.064
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.180
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.130