Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-snapshot-restore-improvements 12 24 Aug 2026, 13:34

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 9:29.711 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
25.472
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.121
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.752
Then the computer boots Tails 23.329
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
25.576
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given a computer 0.126
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.686
Then the computer boots Tails 23.652
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
25.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given a computer 0.107
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.674
Then the computer boots Tails 23.190
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product @doc
25.873
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 4.976
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.261
Then I see a disk failure message 0.874
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.168
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.113
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 5.291
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.397
Then I see a disk failure message 1.484
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.272
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.090
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 4.923
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.341
Then I see a disk failure message 0.642
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 6.072
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.256
And I power off the computer 0.243
When I start the computer 0.679
Then the computer boots Tails 38.426
When I log in to a new session 9.325
And all notifications have disappeared 6.917
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.129
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
59.534
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 5.884
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.247
And I power off the computer 0.264
When I start the computer 0.656
Then the computer boots Tails 35.106
When I log in to a new session 9.755
And all notifications have disappeared 7.468
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.146
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
1:28.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.288
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.310
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.524
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.037
When I log in to a new session 8.199
And all notifications have disappeared 7.470
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.133
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.178
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.200
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.143
Tags: @product
1:14.076
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given a computer 0.111
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.819
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.485
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.364
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.037
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.045
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.138
Tags: @product
1:1.868
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.142
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.308
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.540
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.537
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.064
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.165
Tags: @product
1:10.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.113
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.304
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.918
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.508
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.055
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.253
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.165