Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6485 01 Jul 2026, 11:38

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 9:1.370 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
24.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.046
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.719
Then the computer boots Tails 22.850
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
25.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.753
Then the computer boots Tails 23.060
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
25.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
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 0.747
Then the computer boots Tails 22.935
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product @doc
24.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.072
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.117
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.256
Then I see a disk failure message 0.751
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.155
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.967
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.306
Then I see a disk failure message 1.493
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
21.730
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.213
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.306
Then I see a disk failure message 1.395
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 12.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.109
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 8.495
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.730
Then the computer boots Tails 37.445
When I log in to a new session 9.929
And all notifications have disappeared 6.899
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.123
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:1.859
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 7.767
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.250
When I start the computer 0.692
Then the computer boots Tails 36.064
When I log in to a new session 10.109
And all notifications have disappeared 6.616
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.122
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:29.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.226
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.624
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.556
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.085
When I log in to a new session 9.356
And all notifications have disappeared 6.547
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.123
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.182
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.194
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126
Tags: @product
57.830
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given a computer 0.052
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.796
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.444
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.270
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.111
Tags: @product
57.907
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.045
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.013
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.867
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.446
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.297
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.040
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.152
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.109
Tags: @product
1:4.045
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.047
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.164
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.997
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.439
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.049
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.279
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.122