Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6178 28 Feb 2026, 11:33

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 9:29.966 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
26.562
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.744
Then the computer boots Tails 22.752
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
27.411
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.749
Then the computer boots Tails 23.855
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
26.015
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.060
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.697
Then the computer boots Tails 22.519
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
25.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.591
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.284
Then I see a disk failure message 0.737
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.733
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.337
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.308
Then I see a disk failure message 1.409
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.998
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.287
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.288
Then I see a disk failure message 1.516
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.147
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 8.726
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.205
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.793
Then the computer boots Tails 37.187
When I log in to a new session 9.498
And all notifications have disappeared 7.348
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
1:1.382
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 7.651
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.213
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.755
Then the computer boots Tails 35.811
When I log in to a new session 9.339
And all notifications have disappeared 7.209
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:36.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.684
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.050
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.549
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.047
When I log in to a new session 9.156
And all notifications have disappeared 7.291
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.154
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.240
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.228
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.131
Tags: @product
1:5.216
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.248
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.203
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.447
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.151
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127
Tags: @product
1:1.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.365
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.692
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.495
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.125
Tags: @product
1:4.925
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.060
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.492
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.816
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.270
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.175
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116