Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 106 29 Jun 2025, 20:07

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 12:12.393 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.
39.217
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 21.577
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.467
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.296
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.143

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.991
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.740

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
23.471
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 8.282
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.534
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.595

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.551
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.043

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.695
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.768

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
49.659
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 9.578
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.487
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.353
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.343

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.810
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.755

Pattern coverage: 87.133% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.555
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.586

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.581
And I read the content of the test FS 0.586
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.739

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.523
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.758

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:26.070
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 8.342
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.729
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 47.398
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.702

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.580
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.600

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.850
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.376

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.944
And I read the content of the test FS 0.531
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.939

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.532
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.541

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
54.665
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 9.973
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.530
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.164
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.943
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.270

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.770

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:59.309
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:11.699
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.696
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.533
When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.363

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.145