Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org 5 21 May 2026, 07:47

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 9:51.408 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
26.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.049
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.711
Then the computer boots Tails 24.513
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.751
Then the computer boots Tails 23.847
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.055
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.827
Then the computer boots Tails 23.718
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
26.162
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.689
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.256
Then I see a disk failure message 0.766
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.932
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given a computer 0.081
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.704
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.329
Then I see a disk failure message 1.399
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.614
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.053
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 1.468
Then I see a disk failure message 0.802
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.795
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 8.876
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.188
And I power off the computer 0.257
When I start the computer 0.780
Then the computer boots Tails 41.599
When I log in to a new session 10.835
And all notifications have disappeared 7.098
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.152
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:5.344
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 7.512
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.231
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.759
Then the computer boots Tails 37.928
When I log in to a new session 11.686
And all notifications have disappeared 6.804
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.153
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
1:33.657
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given a computer 0.058
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.919
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 58.918
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.538
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.046
When I log in to a new session 9.371
And all notifications have disappeared 6.932
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.206
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.263
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.365
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.114
Tags: @product
1:11.099
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given a computer 0.092
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" 13.492
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.733
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.485
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.047
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.177
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.290
Tags: @product
1:1.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given a computer 0.097
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.210
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.076
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.571
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.044
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.059
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.202
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.158
Tags: @product
1:10.921
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Steps
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.202
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 56.241
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.371
<"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 4.947 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:31:59)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org/5/artifact/build-artifacts/01:31:59_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_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org/5/artifact/build-artifacts/01:31:59_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org/5/artifact/build-artifacts/01:31:59_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21322-change-domain-deb.tails.boum.org/5/artifact/build-artifacts/01:31:59_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.112