Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 56 09 May 2025, 18:27

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 11:3.711 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.
26.118
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 8.066
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.420
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.226
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.430

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.418
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.556

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.546
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 7.956
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.440
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.708

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.196
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.634

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.549
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.060

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
51.449
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 8.219
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.446
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.106
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.380

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 4.874
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.081

Pattern coverage: 88.278% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.616
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.545

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.241
And I read the content of the test FS 0.594
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.067

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.693
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.580

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:10.491
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 8.019
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.395
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 32.979
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.662

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.652
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.199

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.779
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.963

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.853
And I read the content of the test FS 0.454
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.378

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.478
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.676

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
49.472
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 8.029
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.437
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.680
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.616
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.798

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 20.897

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:20.632
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 6:37.258
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.454
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.646
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.259

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.012