Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6179 01 Mar 2026, 11:09

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 9:29.491 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
29.354
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 24.784
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
29.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.068
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 24.720
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
26.971
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.092
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.765
Then the computer boots Tails 24.754
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product @doc
25.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.100
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.482
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.265
Then I see a disk failure message 0.735
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.391
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.483
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.333
Then I see a disk failure message 1.474
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.804
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.064
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.429
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.329
Then I see a disk failure message 0.764
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.170
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 8.616
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.222
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.906
Then the computer boots Tails 39.473
When I log in to a new session 10.409
And all notifications have disappeared 7.157
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.124
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:2.863
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 7.791
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.225
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.794
Then the computer boots Tails 36.638
When I log in to a new session 9.731
And all notifications have disappeared 7.282
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:28.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.091
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.195
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.547
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.040
When I log in to a new session 8.592
And all notifications have disappeared 7.258
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.122
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.183
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.201
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:11.117
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=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" 13.300
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.006
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.437
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.065
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.180
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.159
Tags: @product
1:0.916
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.259
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.800
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.544
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.157
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.163
Tags: @product
57.047
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.824
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.266
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.526
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.072
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.233
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.125