Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6044 08 Jan 2026, 18:21

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 10:7.528 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
27.581
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.067
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.056
Then the computer boots Tails 25.146
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
26.961
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.060
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.878
Then the computer boots Tails 24.758
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
26.371
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 0.771
Then the computer boots Tails 24.149
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
26.611
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.122
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.491
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.248
Then I see a disk failure message 0.746
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 20.454
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.337
Then I see a disk failure message 1.438
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
20.357
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.066
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.324
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.395
Then I see a disk failure message 1.573
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.178
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 8.893
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.212
And I power off the computer 0.279
When I start the computer 0.878
Then the computer boots Tails 41.429
When I log in to a new session 10.700
And all notifications have disappeared 7.585
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.191
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:8.920
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 8.550
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.185
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.728
Then the computer boots Tails 39.843
When I log in to a new session 11.780
And all notifications have disappeared 7.441
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.133
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
1:44.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.099
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" 0.016
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.345
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:8.019
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.524
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.041
When I log in to a new session 9.713
And all notifications have disappeared 7.229
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.122
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.197
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.788
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.131
Tags: @product
1:14.321
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.028
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.153
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.352
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.477
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.122
Tags: @product
1:3.221
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.731
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.572
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.519
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.072
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.171
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.136
Tags: @product
1:0.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
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" 14.044
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.211
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.598
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124