Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 104 27 Jun 2025, 20:28

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 11:35.746 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.
26.836
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 9.106
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.518
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.719
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.442

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.669
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.379

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 910 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
23.828
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 8.695
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.603
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.094

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.682
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.403

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.628
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.720

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 897 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
49.468
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 8.914
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.464
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.359
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.480

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.687
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.639

Pattern coverage: 86.071% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.123
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.596

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.233
And I read the content of the test FS 0.545
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.204

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.663
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.556

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:16.994
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 8.541
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.439
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 41.167
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.941

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.026
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.911

Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.721
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.196

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.779
And I read the content of the test FS 0.468
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.637

Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.587
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.575

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
50.086
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 8.527
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.411
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.502
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.347
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.409

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.874

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 909 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:48.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:3.619
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.777
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.757
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.363

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.016