Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6121 05 Feb 2026, 11:55

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 9:35.636 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
27.534
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.107
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.812
Then the computer boots Tails 25.241
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
27.257
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.070
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.945
Then the computer boots Tails 25.005
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
28.229
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.068
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.745
Then the computer boots Tails 24.338
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product @doc
26.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.788
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.332
Then I see a disk failure message 0.763
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.534
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.075
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.502
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.370
Then I see a disk failure message 1.511
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.870
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.146
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.440
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.378
Then I see a disk failure message 1.452
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.639
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 8.882
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.202
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.802
Then the computer boots Tails 40.149
When I log in to a new session 10.894
And all notifications have disappeared 7.318
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:4.934
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 8.003
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.270
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.819
Then the computer boots Tails 38.270
When I log in to a new session 9.997
And all notifications have disappeared 7.185
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.126
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
1:32.105
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.057
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.980
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.576
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.533
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.049
When I log in to a new session 8.975
And all notifications have disappeared 7.329
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.168
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.193
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.206
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.146
Tags: @product
1:2.155
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.093
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.016
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.737
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.484
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.521
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.193
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:0.714
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.088
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.981
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 44.697
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.576
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.076
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.216
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.141
Tags: @product
1:4.999
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.743
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.017
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.784
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.043
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.242
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.145