Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5956 15 Nov 2025, 14:11

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 14:31.246 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
32.078
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.194
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.129
Then the computer boots Tails 29.116
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
30.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.177
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.107
Then the computer boots Tails 26.929
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
30.120
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.158
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.078
Then the computer boots Tails 27.113
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @doc
33.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.168
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.408
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.304
Then I see a disk failure message 2.671
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
34.671
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given a computer 0.210
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.435
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.398
Then I see a disk failure message 3.095
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 20.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
33.494
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.180
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.290
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.357
Then I see a disk failure message 2.692
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.928
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.946
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.297
And I power off the computer 0.309
When I start the computer 1.096
Then the computer boots Tails 1:7.503
When I log in to a new session 12.813
And all notifications have disappeared 8.744
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.206
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.333
Tags: @product
1:39.303
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.220
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.147
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.302
And I power off the computer 0.305
When I start the computer 1.176
Then the computer boots Tails 1:4.252
When I log in to a new session 12.827
And all notifications have disappeared 9.065
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.207
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
2:21.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.169
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" 0.044
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.041
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 31.527
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:25.419
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.334
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.081
When I log in to a new session 10.691
And all notifications have disappeared 8.951
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.192
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.268
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.784
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.229
Tags: @product
2:3.321
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.227
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.042
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.057
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.328
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:31.961
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.274
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.073
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.055
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.289
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.181
Tags: @product
1:47.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.186
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" 0.049
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.045
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.280
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:15.829
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.309
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.116
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.077
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.300
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.247
Tags: @product
1:42.189
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given a computer 0.233
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" 0.044
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.064
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 29.264
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:11.421
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.161
<"usb"> expected but was
<"ata">. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:905: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 4.916

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 02:12:02)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5956/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:02_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/5956/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:02_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5956/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:02_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5956/artifact/build-artifacts/02:12:02_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.192