Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6381 16 May 2026, 11:22

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 9:37.914 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
28.259
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.760
Then the computer boots Tails 26.124
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.735
Then the computer boots Tails 22.727
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.828
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.064
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.751
Then the computer boots Tails 23.856
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
25.870
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.315
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.292
Then I see a disk failure message 0.733
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.122
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.330
Then I see a disk failure message 1.490
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
19.343
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.263
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.363
Then I see a disk failure message 0.742
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 9.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.514
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.771
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.251
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.747
Then the computer boots Tails 38.236
When I log in to a new session 10.294
And all notifications have disappeared 6.799
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.151
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
Tags: @product
1:2.545
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.609
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.215
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.748
Then the computer boots Tails 36.201
When I log in to a new session 10.695
And all notifications have disappeared 6.651
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.162
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.016
Tags: @product
1:35.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.867
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.700
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.616
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.046
When I log in to a new session 9.203
And all notifications have disappeared 6.825
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.143
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.185
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.192
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.116
Tags: @product
1:12.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.063
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.261
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.473
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.197
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.146
Tags: @product
1:4.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.062
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.895
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.360
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.519
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.112
Tags: @product
1:7.226
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.081
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.570
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.799
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.480
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.183
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.110