Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4216 06 Feb 2026, 11:46

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 11:39.390 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
28.894
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.063
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.868
Then the computer boots Tails 26.496
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
28.081
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.086
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.851
Then the computer boots Tails 25.652
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
27.800
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.105
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.821
Then the computer boots Tails 25.593
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
30.014
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.825
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.321
Then I see a disk failure message 0.750
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.218
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.067
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.771
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.351
Then I see a disk failure message 1.473
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.660
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.756
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.406
Then I see a disk failure message 1.657
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.847
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.290
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.811
Then the computer boots Tails 55.751
When I log in to a new session 11.388
And all notifications have disappeared 7.454
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:8.541
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.254
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.223
And I power off the computer 0.275
When I start the computer 0.912
Then the computer boots Tails 40.621
When I log in to a new session 10.682
And all notifications have disappeared 7.390
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:21.950
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.766
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:44.068
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.714
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.051
When I log in to a new session 10.451
And all notifications have disappeared 7.452
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.192
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.261
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.888
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.132
Tags: @product
1:27.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.067
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.127
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:9.933
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.568
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.240
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:15.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.065
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.021
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.392
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.640
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.056
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.205
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.140
Tags: @product
1:7.738
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.080
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.057
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.497
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.717
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.059
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.242
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.140