Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6361 08 May 2026, 18:12

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 9:23.773 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
26.695
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.065
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.714
Then the computer boots Tails 24.743
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.519
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.700
Then the computer boots Tails 23.442
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.720
Then the computer boots Tails 23.208
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
25.554
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.106
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.512
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.254
Then I see a disk failure message 0.740
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.530
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.350
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.342
Then I see a disk failure message 0.812
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.289
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.051
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.074
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.762
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.750
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.532
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.211
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.707
Then the computer boots Tails 37.343
When I log in to a new session 10.744
And all notifications have disappeared 6.814
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:1.935
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.693
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.229
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.789
Then the computer boots Tails 35.703
When I log in to a new session 10.480
And all notifications have disappeared 6.637
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.130
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:39.636
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.899
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:5.360
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.457
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 8.427
And all notifications have disappeared 6.811
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.167
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.183
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.192
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121
Tags: @product
1:3.770
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.064
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.160
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.228
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
57.257
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.363
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.346
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.229
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
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:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116
Tags: @product
1:1.784
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.051
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.962
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.885
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.514
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.074
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.226
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123