Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout 8 22 Aug 2026, 15:56

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 89 1 5 0 0 95 11 1 12 9:40.279 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
24.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.688
Then the computer boots Tails 21.942
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.079
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.075
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.841
Then the computer boots Tails 22.095
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
23.624
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.073
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.640
Then the computer boots Tails 21.865
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product @doc
27.129
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.688
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.164
Then I see a disk failure message 1.274
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.082
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.638
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.349
Then I see a disk failure message 1.276
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.087
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 40.788
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.315
Then I see a disk failure message 1.269
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.173
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.546
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.206
And I power off the computer 0.236
When I start the computer 0.607
Then the computer boots Tails 37.004
When I log in to a new session 8.627
And all notifications have disappeared 7.757
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.181
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
57.563
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.992
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.237
And I power off the computer 0.247
When I start the computer 0.671
Then the computer boots Tails 33.632
When I log in to a new session 8.193
And all notifications have disappeared 6.472
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.110
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:31.399
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.113
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" 0.028
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.431
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.431
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.086
When I log in to a new session 6.896
And all notifications have disappeared 7.349
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.108
# 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 1.213
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.129
Tags: @product
1:8.756
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.080
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.020
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.019
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 12.797
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.336
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.260
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.046
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.161
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.134
Tags: @product
57.864
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Steps
Given a computer 0.091
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.021
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.703
Known 
Known issue #20282: Error starting GDM with your graphics card (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:450:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:238:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/hardware_failure.feature:81:in `When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged'
features/hardware_failure.feature:72:in `When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged'
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.000
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 system-partition-not-resized 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.068 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#2)' (at time 01:37:24)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout/8/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:24_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout/8/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:24_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout/8/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:24_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21734-bump-snapshot-restore-timeout/8/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:24_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.115
Tags: @product
55.266
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given a computer 0.088
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.021
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.264
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 40.270
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.280
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.071
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.034
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.210
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.151