Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6168 25 Feb 2026, 11:37

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 9:37.858 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
27.284
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.068
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.870
Then the computer boots Tails 25.113
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.428
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.063
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.804
Then the computer boots Tails 25.328
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.083
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 26.164
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product @doc
26.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.062
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.663
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.298
Then I see a disk failure message 0.820
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
19.224
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.063
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.647
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.304
Then I see a disk failure message 1.529
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 9.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.053
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.770
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.342
Then I see a disk failure message 0.750
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.488
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 8.713
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.297
And I power off the computer 0.266
When I start the computer 0.957
Then the computer boots Tails 39.936
When I log in to a new session 10.914
And all notifications have disappeared 7.201
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
1:5.752
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 8.158
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.275
And I power off the computer 0.254
When I start the computer 0.891
Then the computer boots Tails 38.821
When I log in to a new session 9.671
And all notifications have disappeared 7.541
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.132
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:31.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.090
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" 14.138
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 55.725
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.570
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 9.785
And all notifications have disappeared 7.306
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.153
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.262
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.210
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.139
Tags: @product
1:15.848
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given a computer 0.094
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.780
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.024
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.616
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.204
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126
Tags: @product
1:0.079
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.059
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.184
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.956
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.598
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.033
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.122
Tags: @product
59.133
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 0.060
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" 13.999
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 43.645
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.402
<"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 4.741 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:33:16)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6168/artifact/build-artifacts/01:33:16_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/6168/artifact/build-artifacts/01:33:16_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6168/artifact/build-artifacts/01:33:16_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6168/artifact/build-artifacts/01:33:16_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.126