Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6588 18 Aug 2026, 11:37

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 9:27.786 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
26.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.083
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.686
Then the computer boots Tails 23.937
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
25.813
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.109
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.662
Then the computer boots Tails 22.746
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
25.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 0.653
Then the computer boots Tails 22.135
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product @doc
27.911
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.909
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.204
Then I see a disk failure message 1.202
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.738
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.078
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.523
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.341
Then I see a disk failure message 1.607
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.402
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 7.795
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.342
Then I see a disk failure message 0.640
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.921
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.370
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.237
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.683
Then the computer boots Tails 37.437
When I log in to a new session 9.308
And all notifications have disappeared 6.515
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.443
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 8.261
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.222
And I power off the computer 0.239
When I start the computer 0.720
Then the computer boots Tails 35.966
When I log in to a new session 9.093
And all notifications have disappeared 6.787
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.145
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:27.359
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.098
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.790
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.193
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.481
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.061
When I log in to a new session 7.089
And all notifications have disappeared 7.072
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.119
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.213
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.184
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.191
Tags: @product
1:0.259
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.097
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.327
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.125
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.262
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.121
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.244
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.122
Tags: @product
1:2.089
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.083
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" 0.018
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.565
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 45.845
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.269
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.036
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.218
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.113
Tags: @product
1:11.774
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.153
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" 0.047
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.770
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.227
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.201
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.135