Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6197 12 Mar 2026, 14:37

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 10:16.106 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
28.250
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.054
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.787
Then the computer boots Tails 26.227
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
29.769
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.112
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.802
Then the computer boots Tails 25.237
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
26.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 0.774
Then the computer boots Tails 24.231
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product @doc
25.965
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.070
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.747
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.322
Then I see a disk failure message 1.495
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.686
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.349
Then I see a disk failure message 1.535
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.841
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.390
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.381
Then I see a disk failure message 1.722
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.543
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 9.263
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.254
And I power off the computer 0.277
When I start the computer 0.887
Then the computer boots Tails 42.104
When I log in to a new session 11.022
And all notifications have disappeared 7.584
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.140
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:9.802
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 8.315
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.241
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.839
Then the computer boots Tails 41.281
When I log in to a new session 11.543
And all notifications have disappeared 7.183
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
1:45.105
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given a computer 0.102
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" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.803
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.251
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.839
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 10.015
And all notifications have disappeared 7.873
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 1.211
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.768
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.134
Tags: @product
1:6.752
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.089
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.116
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.677
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.547
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.204
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.174
Tags: @product
1:3.759
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.125
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.528
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.700
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.038
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.131
Tags: @product
1:15.587
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.099
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" 0.044
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.475
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.079
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.509
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.052
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.247
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.186