Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6212 17 Mar 2026, 13:01

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 10:45.401 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
32.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.073
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.815
Then the computer boots Tails 28.400
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
27.941
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given a computer 0.128
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.846
Then the computer boots Tails 25.405
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
31.562
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.095
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.883
Then the computer boots Tails 28.882
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product @doc
29.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.095
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.236
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.388
Then I see a disk failure message 0.832
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
30.511
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given a computer 0.157
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.884
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.482
Then I see a disk failure message 0.843
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.928
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.086
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.766
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.564
Then I see a disk failure message 2.020
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.850
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 9.478
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.283
And I power off the computer 0.262
When I start the computer 0.813
Then the computer boots Tails 43.858
When I log in to a new session 12.817
And all notifications have disappeared 7.131
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.199
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:11.387
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.558
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.257
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.789
Then the computer boots Tails 42.671
When I log in to a new session 11.090
And all notifications have disappeared 7.593
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
1:45.405
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.085
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" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.940
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.241
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.589
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.066
When I log in to a new session 9.569
And all notifications have disappeared 7.749
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.140
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.185
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.795
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.146
Tags: @product
1:17.235
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.074
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.990
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.214
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.624
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.201
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:9.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.119
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.868
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.981
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.645
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.209
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.139
Tags: @product
1:5.179
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.100
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.280
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 47.893
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.567
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.067
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.198
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123