Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6282 09 Apr 2026, 11:44

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 10:37.179 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
33.428
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.086
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.831
Then the computer boots Tails 30.728
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
27.106
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.848
Then the computer boots Tails 24.858
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
27.768
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.789
Then the computer boots Tails 25.574
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
28.362
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.076
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.764
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.334
Then I see a disk failure message 0.754
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.077
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.828
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.426
Then I see a disk failure message 0.814
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.137
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.426
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.400
Then I see a disk failure message 1.613
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.849
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 9.387
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.253
And I power off the computer 0.281
When I start the computer 0.936
Then the computer boots Tails 44.018
When I log in to a new session 11.457
And all notifications have disappeared 7.203
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.306
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
1:10.933
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.232
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.232
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.766
Then the computer boots Tails 41.695
When I log in to a new session 12.336
And all notifications have disappeared 7.247
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
1:46.100
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.100
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" 0.016
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.052
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.032
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:6.975
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.656
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.092
When I log in to a new session 11.366
And all notifications have disappeared 7.269
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.131
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.506
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.890
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.173
Tags: @product
1:19.462
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.122
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.017
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.549
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.651
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.667
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.056
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.298
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.211
Tags: @product
1:3.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.393
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.971
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.548
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.038
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.195
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.150
Tags: @product
1:7.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.069
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" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.507
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.359
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.541
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.186
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.137