Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6677 17 Sep 2026, 11:41

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 89 1 5 0 0 95 11 1 12 9:19.298 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
25.319
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.077
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.667
Then the computer boots Tails 23.499
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
25.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.091
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.662
Then the computer boots Tails 21.764
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 2.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
24.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.093
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.711
Then the computer boots Tails 22.320
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product @doc
25.367
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.105
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.117
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.273
Then I see a disk failure message 0.901
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 14.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
26.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.098
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.718
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.386
Then I see a disk failure message 0.667
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.693
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.123
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.949
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 1.337
Then I see a disk failure message 0.754
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.342
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.224
And I power off the computer 0.265
When I start the computer 0.791
Then the computer boots Tails 35.454
When I log in to a new session 8.208
And all notifications have disappeared 7.386
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.137
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
1:0.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.309
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.239
And I power off the computer 0.248
When I start the computer 0.629
Then the computer boots Tails 34.843
When I log in to a new session 8.881
And all notifications have disappeared 7.529
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.119
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product
1:24.930
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given a computer 0.089
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" 0.022
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.796
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.059
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.422
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.068
When I log in to a new session 7.724
And all notifications have disappeared 7.177
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.107
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.200
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.204
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.116
Tags: @product
1:4.078
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given a computer 0.101
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.027
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.367
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 48.935
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.271
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.058
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.057
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.229
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.120
Tags: @product
1:7.866
Scenario Outline Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Steps
Given a computer 0.130
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" 0.019
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.026
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.732
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 52.958
Known 
Known issue #20282: Error starting GDM with your graphics card (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:450:in `/^the computer (?:re)?boots Tails$/'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:238:in `/^I start Tails from (.+?) drive "(.+?)"( with network unplugged)?( and I login( with persistence enabled)?( with the changed persistence passphrase)?( (?:and|with) an administration password)?)?$/'
features/hardware_failure.feature:81:in `When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged'
features/hardware_failure.feature:72:in `When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged'
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.000
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 system-partition-not-resized 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 5.125 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Disk partitioning errors without a persistent partition, Examples (#2)' (at time 01:41:53)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6677/artifact/build-artifacts/01:41:53_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6677/artifact/build-artifacts/01:41:53_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6677/artifact/build-artifacts/01:41:53_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.net/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/6677/artifact/build-artifacts/01:41:53_Disk_partitioning_errors_without_a_persistent_partition,_Examples___2_.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.097
Tags: @product
1:5.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given a computer 0.111
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" 0.025
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.023
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 13.661
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 50.596
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.237
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 0.158
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.104