Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6331 29 Apr 2026, 07:35

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 10:24.419 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
25.956
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.059
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.716
Then the computer boots Tails 22.524
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
27.001
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.698
Then the computer boots Tails 23.420
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
25.625
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.066
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.724
Then the computer boots Tails 23.505
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product @doc
28.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given a computer 0.057
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.504
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.263
Then I see a disk failure message 0.857
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 18.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
28.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.052
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.194
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.436
Then I see a disk failure message 1.443
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
29.092
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.049
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.311
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.312
Then I see a disk failure message 1.561
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 19.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.420
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.295
And I power off the computer 0.251
When I start the computer 0.804
Then the computer boots Tails 49.055
When I log in to a new session 10.385
And all notifications have disappeared 7.036
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.115
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
1:3.537
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.496
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.235
And I power off the computer 0.253
When I start the computer 0.756
Then the computer boots Tails 36.798
When I log in to a new session 10.652
And all notifications have disappeared 7.186
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.152
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.088
Tags: @product
1:51.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.060
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" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.224
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:16.997
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.503
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.044
When I log in to a new session 8.736
And all notifications have disappeared 7.420
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.103
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.203
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.233
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.141
Tags: @product
1:14.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.054
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.009
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.016
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.534
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.206
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.488
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.043
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.031
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.159
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.112
Tags: @product
1:4.361
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given a computer 0.099
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" 13.362
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 49.056
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.561
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.045
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.029
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.176
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.116
Tags: @product
1:9.453
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 0.077
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" 0.007
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.017
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.228
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 54.722
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.399
<"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 4.927

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#3)' (at time 01:39:55)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6331/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:55_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/6331/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:55_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6331/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:55_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6331/artifact/build-artifacts/01:39:55_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___3_.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.111