Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6118 04 Feb 2026, 11:27

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 9:14.783 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
24.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.048
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.718
Then the computer boots Tails 22.654
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
26.030
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.796
Then the computer boots Tails 23.767
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
24.014
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.729
Then the computer boots Tails 22.130
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product @doc
24.864
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 7.325
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.325
Then I see a disk failure message 0.776
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.251
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.360
Then I see a disk failure message 1.431
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.310
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 7.211
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.307
Then I see a disk failure message 0.715
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.299
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 8.406
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.203
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.698
Then the computer boots Tails 38.924
When I log in to a new session 9.548
And all notifications have disappeared 7.140
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.118
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
1:1.435
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 7.821
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.192
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.770
Then the computer boots Tails 35.682
When I log in to a new session 9.238
And all notifications have disappeared 7.330
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
1:27.944
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_gpt_corruption=gpt_backup,gpt_backup_table" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.029
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.039
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.948
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.391
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.468
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.449
And all notifications have disappeared 6.972
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.124
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.235
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.179
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
1:8.867
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.061
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.119
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.158
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.254
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.171
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127
Tags: @product
58.997
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.056
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.313
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.281
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.183
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:2.768
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.894
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.281
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.283
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.039
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.156
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124