Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6167 24 Feb 2026, 22:41

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 10:31.186 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
27.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.063
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.819
Then the computer boots Tails 25.107
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
28.151
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.720
Then the computer boots Tails 24.587
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
27.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.869
Then the computer boots Tails 24.995
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
30.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.676
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.297
Then I see a disk failure message 0.794
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.569
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.048
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.758
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.594
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.298
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 20.288
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.407
Then I see a disk failure message 0.745
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.018
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 8.583
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.340
And I power off the computer 0.272
When I start the computer 0.814
Then the computer boots Tails 46.930
When I log in to a new session 10.772
And all notifications have disappeared 7.173
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.126
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
1:6.217
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 7.723
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.274
And I power off the computer 0.270
When I start the computer 0.751
Then the computer boots Tails 39.056
When I log in to a new session 10.874
And all notifications have disappeared 7.135
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.125
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:49.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.562
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:15.633
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.547
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.041
When I log in to a new session 7.616
And all notifications have disappeared 7.839
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.135
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.173
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.193
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.140
Tags: @product
1:4.355
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.077
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.686
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.844
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.491
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:0.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.062
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.224
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.203
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.538
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 0.162
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.117
Tags: @product
1:10.903
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_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.234
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.771
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.576
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.169
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.176