Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6242 28 Mar 2026, 07:11

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 90 1 4 0 0 95 11 1 12 11:3.390 Failed
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
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.546
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.056
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.728
Then the computer boots Tails 27.094
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.872
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.068
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.734
Then the computer boots Tails 26.459
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.106
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.748
Then the computer boots Tails 24.547
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
27.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.414
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.287
Then I see a disk failure message 0.737
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.164
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.763
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.350
Then I see a disk failure message 0.984
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.173
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.118
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.341
Then I see a disk failure message 1.514
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.983
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.430
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.788
Then the computer boots Tails 39.011
When I log in to a new session 11.587
And all notifications have disappeared 7.047
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.149
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:6.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.736
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.257
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.878
Then the computer boots Tails 38.946
When I log in to a new session 9.880
And all notifications have disappeared 7.207
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.146
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:41.861
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.076
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.408
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.584
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.625
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.043
When I log in to a new session 8.931
And all notifications have disappeared 7.498
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.177
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.197
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.277
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
1:20.649
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.694
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:4.997
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.596
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
1:22.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.049
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.935
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:6.928
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.579
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.052
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.234
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
Tags: @product
1:34.131
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Steps
Given a computer 0.061
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.045
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:18.448
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.544
<"usb"> 
<"usb"> expected but was
<"ata">. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:918:in `/^Tails is running from (.*) drive "([^"]+)"$/'
features/hardware_failure.feature:82:in `Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp"'
features/hardware_failure.feature:73:in `Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp"'
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.000
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.000
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.000
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.785 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:39:37)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6242/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:37_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6242/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:37_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6242/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:37_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6242/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:37_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041