Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 103 26 Jun 2025, 21:08

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 21:46.231 Passed
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.
35.767
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.569
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.003
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.707
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.954

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I kill the allocating process 0.456
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 16.076

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
41.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.938
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.648
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 11.912

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 852 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.746
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.463

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I umount "/mnt" 0.544
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.055

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 852 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:15.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 15.078
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.164
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 12.093
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 10.810

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 861 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.037
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.219

Pattern coverage: 86.974% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.686
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.117

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 861 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.254
And I read the content of the test FS 0.685
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.169

Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.390
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.351

Pattern coverage: 0.001% (0 MiB out of 861 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:38.612
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.872
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.773
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 45.951
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.389

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 857 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.956
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.558

Pattern coverage: 100.849% (92 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.124
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.593

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 857 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.900
And I read the content of the test FS 0.619
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.207

Pattern coverage: 104.127% (95 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.747
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.916

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 857 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:2.036
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.020
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.398
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 22.287
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.403
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.188

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)

When I trigger shutdown 0.018
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.720

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 864 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
16:33.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15:40.074
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.619
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 29.112
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 23.626

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 4.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.094