Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6587 18 Aug 2026, 07:26

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 9:25.998 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
24.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.107
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.764
Then the computer boots Tails 22.188
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
25.333
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.159
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.718
Then the computer boots Tails 21.941
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
23.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.086
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.593
Then the computer boots Tails 21.984
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
28.049
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.878
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.283
Then I see a disk failure message 0.689
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.085
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.110
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.330
Then I see a disk failure message 1.197
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.086
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.663
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.382
Then I see a disk failure message 0.679
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.373
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 8.884
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.246
When I start the computer 0.679
Then the computer boots Tails 36.140
When I log in to a new session 8.423
And all notifications have disappeared 6.625
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.138
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
59.067
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.331
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.214
And I power off the computer 0.243
When I start the computer 0.635
Then the computer boots Tails 33.511
When I log in to a new session 8.476
And all notifications have disappeared 7.521
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.126
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:33.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.594
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.079
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.244
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.055
When I log in to a new session 7.171
And all notifications have disappeared 7.108
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.102
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.149
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.184
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116
Tags: @product
1:5.929
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.110
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.031
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.059
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 51.254
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.167
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.027
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.197
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
56.127
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given a computer 0.092
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" 0.021
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.889
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 41.563
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.202
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.090
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.056
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.181
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118
Tags: @product
1:13.962
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.134
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" 0.036
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.032
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.016
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.175
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.275
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.205
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.118