Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20036-check-po-msgfmt-ignore-irrelevant-directories 1 25 Jul 2026, 17:27

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 51 0 0 0 0 51 6 0 6 8:1.806 Passed
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
Feature System memory erasure on shutdown
As a Tails user when I shutdown Tails I want the system memory to be free from sensitive data.
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
18.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.697
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.430
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.226
# Since Debian Trixie we only get 99.610% coverage (tails#21012)
Then patterns cover at least 127 MiB in the guest's memory 1.929 
Pattern coverage: 100.395% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.869
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 6.721 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1462 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
17.792
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.801
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.395
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.849 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1465 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.633
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 1.967 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.354
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.791 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1465 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
33.118
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.933
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.403
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 5.380
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.736 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1456 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.792
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.150 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.784
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.934 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1456 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.209
And I read the content of the test FS 0.516
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.112 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.427
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.735 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1456 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
59.712
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.587
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.461
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 30.466
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 1.678 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1464 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.135
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 1.766 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.439
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.873 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1464 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.914
And I read the content of the test FS 0.381
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 1.904 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.496
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 4.606 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1464 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
59.995
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.952
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.385
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 28.882
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.727
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 1.528 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.010
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.507 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1467 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 3.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
4:52.311
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 enabled and logged in 4:5.490
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.333
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.496
When I trigger shutdown 0.006
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.984 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1521 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 3.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014