Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6147 14 Feb 2026, 11:45

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 10:7.959 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
29.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.052
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.722
Then the computer boots Tails 24.981
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
30.096
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.088
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.831
Then the computer boots Tails 26.375
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
27.088
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
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 24.504
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
26.590
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.727
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.227
Then I see a disk failure message 0.737
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.458
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.063
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.315
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.324
Then I see a disk failure message 0.847
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.724
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 7.934
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.434
Then I see a disk failure message 1.543
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.327
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.794
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.231
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.802
Then the computer boots Tails 41.497
When I log in to a new session 11.326
And all notifications have disappeared 7.258
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
1:7.939
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 8.977
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.266
And I power off the computer 0.262
When I start the computer 0.802
Then the computer boots Tails 38.945
When I log in to a new session 10.800
And all notifications have disappeared 7.744
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.134
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:31.264
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.061
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.020
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.338
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.482
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.146
When I log in to a new session 10.049
And all notifications have disappeared 7.059
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.144
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.193
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.731
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126
Tags: @product
1:13.668
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.761
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.980
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.556
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.196
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.145
Tags: @product
1:3.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.063
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.495
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.955
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.656
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
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 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.119
Tags: @product
1:14.968
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.064
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.126
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.976
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.524
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.168
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120