Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6210 17 Mar 2026, 07:14

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 10:42.402 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
30.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.729
Then the computer boots Tails 26.636
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
28.035
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.064
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.737
Then the computer boots Tails 24.403
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
25.573
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.664
Then the computer boots Tails 23.509
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
31.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.151
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.287
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.288
Then I see a disk failure message 0.740
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 21.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.194
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.381
Then I see a disk failure message 1.496
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.398
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.499
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.322
Then I see a disk failure message 1.469
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.922
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 9.971
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.394
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.778
Then the computer boots Tails 46.935
When I log in to a new session 10.234
And all notifications have disappeared 7.221
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.128
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
1:7.050
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 7.618
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.343
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.863
Then the computer boots Tails 40.693
When I log in to a new session 10.167
And all notifications have disappeared 6.977
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.127
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product
2:9.066
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.049
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.062
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.271
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:33.287
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.537
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 10.177
And all notifications have disappeared 7.083
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.134
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.212
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.192
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.120
Tags: @product
1:13.113
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.609
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 57.640
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.531
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.142
Tags: @product
58.447
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.058
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.032
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.469
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.060
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.570
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.111
Tags: @product
1:6.384
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.320
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.096
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.610
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.047
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.175
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.112