Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6304 15 Apr 2026, 13:01

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 9:43.732 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
27.215
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.057
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.841
Then the computer boots Tails 24.906
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.056
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.713
Then the computer boots Tails 24.191
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
26.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.063
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.727
Then the computer boots Tails 24.842
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
20.236
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.062
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.506
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.261
Then I see a disk failure message 0.730
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 10.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
25.363
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.097
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.538
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.333
Then I see a disk failure message 1.456
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 15.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.083
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.485
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.450
Then I see a disk failure message 0.821
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.761
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 9.352
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.264
And I power off the computer 0.261
When I start the computer 0.753
Then the computer boots Tails 40.112
When I log in to a new session 10.670
And all notifications have disappeared 7.198
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
Tags: @product
1:4.557
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 7.468
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.218
And I power off the computer 0.256
When I start the computer 0.888
Then the computer boots Tails 37.228
When I log in to a new session 11.406
And all notifications have disappeared 6.900
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.181
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
1:42.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.064
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" 0.008
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.519
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:7.040
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.729
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.098
When I log in to a new session 9.122
And all notifications have disappeared 7.153
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.125
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.207
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.205
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.130
Tags: @product
1:6.523
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.106
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" 1.043
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.417
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.948
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.598
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.101
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.253
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.130
Tags: @product
1:4.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.081
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" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.518
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.518
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.050
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.173
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.128
Tags: @product
1:5.396
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given a computer 0.074
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" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.020
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.137
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.727
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.425
<"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 4.970 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:35:25)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6304/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:25_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/6304/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:25_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6304/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:25_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6304/artifact/build-artifacts/01:35:25_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.154