Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6353 05 May 2026, 13:25

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 94 1 0 0 0 95 11 1 12 11:39.361 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
28.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.073
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 26.550
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
1:27.467
Scenario Outline Alerting about disk read failures before reaching the Welcome Screen
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Steps
Given a computer 0.059
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.845
Then the computer boots Tails 26.562
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1:0.000
FindTextFailed 
FindTextFailed (FindTextFailed)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:274:in `rescue in wait_text'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:266:in `wait_text'
./features/step_definitions/hardware.rb:43:in `/^I see a disk failure message on the splash screen$/'
features/hardware_failure.feature:17:in `And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen'
features/hardware_failure.feature:13:in `And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen'
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.274 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Alerting about disk read failures before reaching the Welcome Screen, Examples (#2)' (at time 01:30:47)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6353/artifact/build-artifacts/01:30:47_Alerting_about_disk_read_failures_before_reaching_the_Welcome_Screen,_Examples___2_.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6353/artifact/build-artifacts/01:30:47_Alerting_about_disk_read_failures_before_reaching_the_Welcome_Screen,_Examples___2_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6353/artifact/build-artifacts/01:30:47_Alerting_about_disk_read_failures_before_reaching_the_Welcome_Screen,_Examples___2_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6353/artifact/build-artifacts/01:30:47_Alerting_about_disk_read_failures_before_reaching_the_Welcome_Screen,_Examples___2_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.078
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.778
Then the computer boots Tails 26.637
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
27.543
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.773
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.290
Then I see a disk failure message 0.849
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.804
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.088
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.928
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.319
Then I see a disk failure message 1.684
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.817
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.096
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.905
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.320
Then I see a disk failure message 1.490
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.442
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 9.323
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.230
And I power off the computer 0.274
When I start the computer 0.876
Then the computer boots Tails 44.132
When I log in to a new session 11.424
And all notifications have disappeared 7.010
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.163
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
1:8.973
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 7.724
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.246
And I power off the computer 0.265
When I start the computer 0.813
Then the computer boots Tails 40.113
When I log in to a new session 12.667
And all notifications have disappeared 6.937
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.195
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:52.102
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.084
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" 0.016
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.335
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:15.494
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.617
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.054
When I log in to a new session 9.963
And all notifications have disappeared 7.296
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.154
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.250
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.800
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.124
Tags: @product
1:17.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.079
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.874
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.378
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.554
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 0.261
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.123
Tags: @product
1:2.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.252
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.592
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.521
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.189
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.127
Tags: @product
1:17.104
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.075
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" 0.010
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.972
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.212
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.537
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.181
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126