Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6119 04 Feb 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 9:55.523 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
28.494
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.081
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.780
Then the computer boots Tails 26.314
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
26.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.710
Then the computer boots Tails 24.516
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
26.515
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.063
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.762
Then the computer boots Tails 24.232
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
26.516
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.068
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.466
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.233
Then I see a disk failure message 0.730
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.636
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.067
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.341
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.562
Then I see a disk failure message 0.760
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.016
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.300
Then I see a disk failure message 1.529
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.292
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 8.652
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.210
And I power off the computer 0.330
When I start the computer 0.740
Then the computer boots Tails 39.389
When I log in to a new session 10.648
And all notifications have disappeared 7.168
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.144
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:4.109
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 7.836
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.199
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.785
Then the computer boots Tails 37.422
When I log in to a new session 10.330
And all notifications have disappeared 7.147
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.121
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
1:39.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.069
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.890
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.816
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.651
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.072
When I log in to a new session 9.296
And all notifications have disappeared 7.199
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.125
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.189
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.464
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.128
Tags: @product
1:10.246
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.072
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.304
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.089
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.470
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.192
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
1:5.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.788
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.203
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.493
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.200
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.224
Tags: @product
1:7.886
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.520
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.448
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.509
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.203
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.131