Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6347 03 May 2026, 11:33

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 10:53.723 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
26.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.653
Then the computer boots Tails 23.974
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.330
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.054
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.696
Then the computer boots Tails 24.237
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.052
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.705
Then the computer boots Tails 22.824
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
27.823
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.194
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.256
Then I see a disk failure message 1.008
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.038
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.051
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.169
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.395
Then I see a disk failure message 0.900
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.119
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 7.175
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.417
Then I see a disk failure message 1.464
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.554
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 8.598
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.325
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.733
Then the computer boots Tails 54.596
When I log in to a new session 10.100
And all notifications have disappeared 6.802
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product
1:5.841
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.310
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.236
And I power off the computer 0.258
When I start the computer 0.734
Then the computer boots Tails 40.187
When I log in to a new session 10.281
And all notifications have disappeared 6.700
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:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
2:16.780
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_gpt_corruption=gpt_backup,gpt_backup_table" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.475
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:38.772
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.491
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.050
When I log in to a new session 12.750
And all notifications have disappeared 6.670
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.134
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.179
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.172
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.115
Tags: @product
1:24.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.015
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.560
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:8.711
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.503
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.165
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.146
Tags: @product
1:4.039
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.603
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.629
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.492
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.028
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.151
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.142
Tags: @product
58.050
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 0.052
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.452
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.351
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.170
<"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 4.794 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:39:42)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6347/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:42_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/6347/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:42_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6347/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:42_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6347/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:42_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.147