Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6076 18 Jan 2026, 11:41

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 9:16.228 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
25.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.051
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.720
Then the computer boots Tails 22.994
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
24.975
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 22.969
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
26.613
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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 23.340
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
24.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.107
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.224
Then I see a disk failure message 0.735
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.269
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.306
Then I see a disk failure message 1.392
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.562
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 7.259
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.296
Then I see a disk failure message 1.340
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.030
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 8.377
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.206
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.729
Then the computer boots Tails 38.247
When I log in to a new session 10.009
And all notifications have disappeared 7.057
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.146
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product
1:1.026
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 7.553
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.184
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.728
Then the computer boots Tails 35.654
When I log in to a new session 9.616
And all notifications have disappeared 6.912
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.113
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
1:29.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.596
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.076
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.570
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.039
When I log in to a new session 7.279
And all notifications have disappeared 7.514
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.119
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.213
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.287
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.135
Tags: @product
57.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.047
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.991
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.455
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.216
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.168
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.138
Tags: @product
1:0.775
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.045
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.155
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.239
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.118
Tags: @product
1:10.937
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.105
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.242
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.277
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.039
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.117