Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6219 20 Mar 2026, 11:07

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 10:19.278 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
29.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.071
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.755
Then the computer boots Tails 27.674
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
27.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 25.419
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
28.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.761
Then the computer boots Tails 25.931
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
27.955
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.783
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.336
Then I see a disk failure message 0.779
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.615
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 7.737
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.453
Then I see a disk failure message 0.852
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.741
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.066
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.606
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.377
Then I see a disk failure message 0.775
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.671
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 9.137
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.313
And I power off the computer 0.266
When I start the computer 0.825
Then the computer boots Tails 41.226
When I log in to a new session 11.815
And all notifications have disappeared 7.875
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.204
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
1:7.522
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.038
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.220
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.773
Then the computer boots Tails 38.992
When I log in to a new session 11.763
And all notifications have disappeared 7.349
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.119
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:33.757
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.068
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.907
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.694
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 9.737
And all notifications have disappeared 7.745
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.133
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.255
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.831
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:17.854
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.056
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.380
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.581
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.054
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.195
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.148
Tags: @product
1:6.853
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.799
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.171
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.553
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.122
Tags: @product
1:14.601
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
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" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.148
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.358
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.613
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.057
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.248
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.151