Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6142 11 Feb 2026, 20:05

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 10:43.910 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
33.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
Given a computer 0.117
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 1.030
Then the computer boots Tails 31.028
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
30.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.070
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.888
Then the computer boots Tails 28.059
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.302
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.107
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.909
Then the computer boots Tails 25.804
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
27.861
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.072
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.208
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.316
Then I see a disk failure message 0.822
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.120
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.101
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.941
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.515
Then I see a disk failure message 0.911
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.799
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given a computer 0.124
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.050
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.520
Then I see a disk failure message 0.942
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.106
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.315
And I power off the computer 0.466
When I start the computer 0.867
Then the computer boots Tails 44.036
When I log in to a new session 11.799
And all notifications have disappeared 7.898
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.164
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:11.603
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 8.588
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.226
And I power off the computer 0.281
When I start the computer 0.834
Then the computer boots Tails 41.407
When I log in to a new session 12.759
And all notifications have disappeared 7.297
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.203
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:50.054
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.107
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.039
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:12.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.811
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.049
When I log in to a new session 9.730
And all notifications have disappeared 7.731
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.178
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.274
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.837
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.232
Tags: @product
1:13.504
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given a computer 0.115
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.752
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.110
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 1.035
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.071
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.057
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.307
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:12.173
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.101
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.030
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.712
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.484
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.552
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.188
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.139
Tags: @product
1:3.520
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Steps
Given a computer 0.058
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" 0.033
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.336
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 46.623
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.448
<"usb"> 
<"usb"> expected but was
<"ata">. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:918: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 5.050 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:37:58)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6142/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:58_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/6142/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:58_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6142/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:58_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6142/artifact/build-artifacts/01:37:58_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.162