Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6436 09 Jun 2026, 11:34

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 9:15.117 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
27.251
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.710
Then the computer boots Tails 24.132
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
27.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.673
Then the computer boots Tails 24.198
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
26.336
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
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 24.247
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
22.365
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.294
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.252
Then I see a disk failure message 0.842
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.247
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.111
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.375
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.190
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.181
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.314
Then I see a disk failure message 1.396
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.916
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.633
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.265
And I power off the computer 0.259
When I start the computer 0.738
Then the computer boots Tails 38.629
When I log in to a new session 10.684
And all notifications have disappeared 6.568
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.016
Tags: @product
1:2.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.347
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.225
And I power off the computer 0.252
When I start the computer 0.745
Then the computer boots Tails 36.283
When I log in to a new session 10.400
And all notifications have disappeared 6.730
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.135
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:26.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.511
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.739
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.451
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 9.203
And all notifications have disappeared 6.693
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.156
# 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 1.220
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.117
Tags: @product
1:2.606
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.077
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.587
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.169
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.494
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.177
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.122
Tags: @product
56.955
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.056
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" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.803
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 42.317
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.505
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.041
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.111
Tags: @product
1:8.847
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.051
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.616
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.682
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.218
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.060
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.155
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.114