Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6409 28 May 2026, 11:34

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 9:47.437 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
28.867
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.087
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.769
Then the computer boots Tails 25.472
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.053
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.827
Then the computer boots Tails 24.672
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.985
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.062
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.852
Then the computer boots Tails 25.182
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
25.656
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.058
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.358
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.278
Then I see a disk failure message 1.493
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.464
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.055
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.498
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.347
Then I see a disk failure message 1.608
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.068
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.262
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.330
Then I see a disk failure message 0.759
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.756
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.629
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.260
And I power off the computer 0.255
When I start the computer 0.795
Then the computer boots Tails 38.778
When I log in to a new session 11.038
And all notifications have disappeared 6.741
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.253
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.013
Tags: @product
1:3.669
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.814
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.215
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 37.348
When I log in to a new session 9.931
And all notifications have disappeared 7.239
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.145
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
1:33.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.062
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.458
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.215
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.765
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.071
When I log in to a new session 9.476
And all notifications have disappeared 6.730
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.159
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.211
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.202
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.239
Tags: @product
1:11.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.087
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" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.237
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.728
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.507
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.046
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.114
Tags: @product
1:1.697
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
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" 13.409
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.407
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.523
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.042
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.046
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.182
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.114
Tags: @product
1:8.661
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Steps
Given a computer 0.055
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" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.519
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.892
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.167
<"usb"> 
<"usb"> expected but was
<"ata">. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:938: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:335 4.738 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:34:04)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6409/artifact/build-artifacts/01:34:04_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/6409/artifact/build-artifacts/01:34:04_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6409/artifact/build-artifacts/01:34:04_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6409/artifact/build-artifacts/01:34:04_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.147