Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6487 02 Jul 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 9:7.538 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
25.529
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.043
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.678
Then the computer boots Tails 23.616
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
26.010
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.774
Then the computer boots Tails 22.240
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
26.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.730
Then the computer boots Tails 23.447
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
24.621
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.047
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.139
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.263
Then I see a disk failure message 0.708
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.143
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
Then I see a disk failure message 0.721
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
24.941
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.048
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.265
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.330
Then I see a disk failure message 0.771
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.067
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 8.399
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.274
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.702
Then the computer boots Tails 38.957
When I log in to a new session 9.891
And all notifications have disappeared 6.463
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 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:0.818
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 7.343
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.202
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.712
Then the computer boots Tails 35.731
When I log in to a new session 10.060
And all notifications have disappeared 6.398
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.110
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:27.334
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.046
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.062
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.674
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.498
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.046
When I log in to a new session 8.679
And all notifications have disappeared 6.740
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.122
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.205
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.230
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.133
Tags: @product
1:1.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.045
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.013
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.913
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.933
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.288
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.053
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.079
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.150
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116
Tags: @product
57.688
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.895
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.005
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.483
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.026
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.110
Tags: @product
1:2.794
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.078
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" 1.014
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.809
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.418
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.050
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.154
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.107