Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 80 01 Jun 2025, 18:30

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 11:10.928 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.
27.232
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 8.113
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.433
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 5.407
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.371

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.184
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.721

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.133
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 8.190
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.413
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.548

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.664
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.476

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.466
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.374

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
45.109
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 7.867
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 8.966
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.701

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.303
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.575

Pattern coverage: 87.348% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.041
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.865

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.208
And I read the content of the test FS 0.478
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.684

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.521
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.469

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:17.095
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 7.892
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.423
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 40.220
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.987

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.585
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.039

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.842
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.878

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.195
And I read the content of the test FS 0.472
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.360

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.485
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.712

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
48.778
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 8.096
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.345
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.917
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.087
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.542

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.773

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:27.578
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 6:40.885
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.290
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.099
When I trigger shutdown 0.019
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.283

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.011