Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6589 18 Aug 2026, 18:06

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 10:35.267 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
26.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.648
Then the computer boots Tails 23.310
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.614
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.121
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.811
Then the computer boots Tails 24.463
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.110
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.704
Then the computer boots Tails 23.910
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
29.877
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.888
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.248
Then I see a disk failure message 0.672
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.565
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.149
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.021
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.326
Then I see a disk failure message 0.634
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.262
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.040
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.363
Then I see a disk failure message 0.709
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.565
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 9.134
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.221
And I power off the computer 0.242
When I start the computer 0.732
Then the computer boots Tails 37.887
When I log in to a new session 9.415
And all notifications have disappeared 7.789
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
1:7.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.671
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.442
And I power off the computer 0.459
When I start the computer 1.614
Then the computer boots Tails 38.416
When I log in to a new session 9.814
And all notifications have disappeared 7.877
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.122
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
1:46.349
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.093
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" 15.175
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.331
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.599
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.135
When I log in to a new session 7.588
And all notifications have disappeared 7.600
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.201
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.297
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.277
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 2.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
1:27.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.105
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.030
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.618
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.025
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.285
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.063
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.060
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.220
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.106
Tags: @product
1:4.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.103
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" 0.024
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.034
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.971
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.260
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.150
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.108
Tags: @product
1:17.459
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.861
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.779
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.407
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.034
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.044
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.198
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.127