Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6057 13 Jan 2026, 13:42

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 9:22.913 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
26.505
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 0.775
Then the computer boots Tails 23.309
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
26.753
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.764
Then the computer boots Tails 24.514
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
27.174
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.090
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.893
Then the computer boots Tails 24.795
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
25.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.212
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.213
Then I see a disk failure message 0.788
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.553
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.657
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.290
Then I see a disk failure message 1.407
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.347
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.478
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.290
Then I see a disk failure message 1.409
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.006
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 8.559
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.210
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.787
Then the computer boots Tails 37.325
When I log in to a new session 10.691
And all notifications have disappeared 7.034
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
1:3.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.485
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.192
And I power off the computer 0.286
When I start the computer 0.849
Then the computer boots Tails 36.823
When I log in to a new session 9.875
And all notifications have disappeared 7.214
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.123
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
1:30.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given a computer 0.055
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" 13.261
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.573
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.511
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.043
When I log in to a new session 8.712
And all notifications have disappeared 7.205
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.145
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.169
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.168
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.111
Tags: @product
1:5.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.985
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.477
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.532
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.056
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.079
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.146
Tags: @product
1:1.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.366
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.324
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.235
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
Tags: @product
59.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.313
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.424
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.266
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 0.237
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.113