Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6138 10 Feb 2026, 22:09

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 12:13.693 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
32.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.205
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.044
Then the computer boots Tails 29.503
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
30.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.177
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.068
Then the computer boots Tails 27.754
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
30.578
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.167
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.126
Then the computer boots Tails 27.607
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product @doc
33.300
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given a computer 0.169
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.940
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.326
Then I see a disk failure message 1.383
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
33.654
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.187
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.129
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.388
Then I see a disk failure message 2.777
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
32.981
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.199
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.472
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.373
Then I see a disk failure message 2.594
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.916
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.319
And I power off the computer 0.321
When I start the computer 1.188
Then the computer boots Tails 45.162
When I log in to a new session 12.462
And all notifications have disappeared 9.372
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.228
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:16.994
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.280
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.302
And I power off the computer 0.498
When I start the computer 1.107
Then the computer boots Tails 43.188
When I log in to a new session 12.629
And all notifications have disappeared 8.757
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.220
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
1:59.729
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
Given a computer 0.179
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" 0.043
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 31.619
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.598
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.082
When I log in to a new session 11.364
And all notifications have disappeared 8.729
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.217
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.324
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.903
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.202
Tags: @product
1:32.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.173
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.048
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.044
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.236
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.439
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.631
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.106
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.081
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.340
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.177
Tags: @product
1:23.368
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.180
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" 0.054
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.042
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 30.293
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.446
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.559
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.159
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.276
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.345
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.213
Tags: @product
1:25.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.432
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" 0.043
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.046
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 28.661
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.618
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.586
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.094
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.055
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.289
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.215