Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6042 07 Jan 2026, 11:27

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 9:56.376 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
28.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.065
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.838
Then the computer boots Tails 26.594
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
27.573
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.065
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.939
Then the computer boots Tails 25.271
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
26.815
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.069
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.818
Then the computer boots Tails 24.493
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.077
Tags: @product @doc
27.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.152
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.944
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.310
Then I see a disk failure message 0.764
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.054
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 7.533
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.593
Then I see a disk failure message 1.581
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.075
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.153
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.230
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.392
Then I see a disk failure message 1.757
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.459
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 8.623
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.255
And I power off the computer 0.262
When I start the computer 0.909
Then the computer boots Tails 40.107
When I log in to a new session 11.865
And all notifications have disappeared 7.301
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
1:5.371
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 8.487
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.234
And I power off the computer 0.263
When I start the computer 0.844
Then the computer boots Tails 37.469
When I log in to a new session 10.551
And all notifications have disappeared 7.379
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.136
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:34.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.140
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.130
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.536
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.048
When I log in to a new session 10.426
And all notifications have disappeared 7.155
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.163
# 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 1.260
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.165
Tags: @product
1:17.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given a computer 0.078
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" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.042
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.365
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.670
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.217
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.121
Tags: @product
1:2.436
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.070
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.945
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.479
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.631
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.172
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:3.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.566
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.527
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.599
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.208
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119