Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4273 12 Mar 2026, 11:08

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 10:15.388 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
29.694
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.077
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.740
Then the computer boots Tails 25.210
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
28.198
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.076
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.951
Then the computer boots Tails 25.669
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
28.684
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.766
Then the computer boots Tails 26.373
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product @doc
27.010
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.272
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.369
Then I see a disk failure message 0.757
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.712
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.060
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.534
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.333
Then I see a disk failure message 1.640
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.092
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.094
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.489
Then I see a disk failure message 0.861
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.475
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 9.297
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.275
And I power off the computer 0.282
When I start the computer 0.874
Then the computer boots Tails 41.932
When I log in to a new session 11.656
And all notifications have disappeared 6.998
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.140
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
1:6.968
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 8.324
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.241
And I power off the computer 0.277
When I start the computer 0.796
Then the computer boots Tails 38.618
When I log in to a new session 10.711
And all notifications have disappeared 7.789
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product
1:39.017
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.115
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" 0.017
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.432
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.853
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.642
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 8.995
And all notifications have disappeared 7.523
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.316
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.302
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.742
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.157
Tags: @product
1:16.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.152
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" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.148
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.608
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.612
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
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:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.191
Tags: @product
1:8.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.083
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.441
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.176
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.554
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.043
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:4.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.070
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.359
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.544
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.611
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.068
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.219
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.213