Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4227 11 Feb 2026, 12:15

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 10:46.160 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
28.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.746
Then the computer boots Tails 26.588
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
27.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.815
Then the computer boots Tails 25.368
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
27.283
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.753
Then the computer boots Tails 24.926
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.081
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 7.842
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.305
Then I see a disk failure message 1.392
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.371
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.369
Then I see a disk failure message 0.761
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.649
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.493
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.339
Then I see a disk failure message 1.504
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.941
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 8.740
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.541
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.761
Then the computer boots Tails 45.327
When I log in to a new session 10.314
And all notifications have disappeared 7.846
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.150
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
1:12.378
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.829
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.243
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.739
Then the computer boots Tails 45.555
When I log in to a new session 10.543
And all notifications have disappeared 7.077
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
2:3.607
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.975
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:27.604
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.690
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 9.746
And all notifications have disappeared 7.779
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.132
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.257
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.264
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.125
Tags: @product
1:21.458
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.127
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:5.405
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.502
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 0.242
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.122
Tags: @product
1:1.801
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.063
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.934
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.888
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.642
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.132
Tags: @product
1:3.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.353
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.519
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.532
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.208
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.145