Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6192 10 Mar 2026, 14:41

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 10:38.768 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
26.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.067
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.757
Then the computer boots Tails 24.248
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.083
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.792
Then the computer boots Tails 25.618
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
27.747
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.064
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.887
Then the computer boots Tails 25.419
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product @doc
29.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.255
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 0.310
Then I see a disk failure message 1.587
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.085
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.621
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.350
Then I see a disk failure message 1.539
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.131
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.811
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.397
Then I see a disk failure message 0.886
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.691
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 9.342
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.231
And I power off the computer 0.260
When I start the computer 0.798
Then the computer boots Tails 46.359
When I log in to a new session 11.506
And all notifications have disappeared 8.019
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.167
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:13.266
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 8.302
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.260
And I power off the computer 0.266
When I start the computer 0.790
Then the computer boots Tails 45.554
When I log in to a new session 10.281
And all notifications have disappeared 7.639
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.166
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
Tags: @product
1:50.923
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.091
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" 0.012
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.024
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.428
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:12.963
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.606
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.045
When I log in to a new session 9.903
And all notifications have disappeared 7.754
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.135
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.206
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.746
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.143
Tags: @product
1:17.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.064
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" 1.018
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.991
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.280
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.572
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.032
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.137
Tags: @product
1:7.498
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.050
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.996
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.516
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.629
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.048
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.037
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.186
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.129
Tags: @product
1:4.556
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 0.073
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" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.035
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.576
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.358
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.499
<"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 4.858 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:40:11)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6192/artifact/build-artifacts/01:40:11_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/6192/artifact/build-artifacts/01:40:11_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6192/artifact/build-artifacts/01:40:11_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6192/artifact/build-artifacts/01:40:11_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.152