Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6512 20 Jul 2026, 17:16

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 10:47.686 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
30.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.059
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.804
Then the computer boots Tails 28.235
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
30.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.211
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.795
Then the computer boots Tails 27.368
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
29.152
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.073
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.784
Then the computer boots Tails 26.664
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
31.341
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given a computer 0.071
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.465
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.270
Then I see a disk failure message 0.748
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.570
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.047
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.818
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.348
Then I see a disk failure message 1.605
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.770
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.408
Then I see a disk failure message 1.580
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.414
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.600
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.190
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.759
Then the computer boots Tails 45.549
When I log in to a new session 13.350
And all notifications have disappeared 7.582
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.122
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:9.840
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.822
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.267
And I power off the computer 0.263
When I start the computer 0.958
Then the computer boots Tails 41.457
When I log in to a new session 11.612
And all notifications have disappeared 7.305
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.139
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
1:50.419
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
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" 0.006
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.031
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.140
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:14.599
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.525
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.048
When I log in to a new session 10.114
And all notifications have disappeared 7.314
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.165
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.206
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.208
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.124
Tags: @product
1:9.410
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.072
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.034
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.354
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.598
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.039
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.218
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.202
Tags: @product
1:4.323
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.160
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" 0.028
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.745
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.431
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.661
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.125
Tags: @product
1:17.937
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.096
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:1.912
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.531
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.062
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.030
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.210
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129