Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 85 06 Jun 2025, 19:08

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 11:37.287 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.
25.555
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 8.361
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.502
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.551
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.421

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.997
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.720

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.127
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 8.140
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.414
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.213

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.592
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.787

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.383
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.595

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
49.685
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 8.105
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.442
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.388
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.219

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.745
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.000

Pattern coverage: 87.112% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.976
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.019

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.270
And I read the content of the test FS 0.661
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.624

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.441
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.789

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:17.925
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 8.622
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 38.624
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.265

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.965
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.610

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.799
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.090

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.737
And I read the content of the test FS 0.554
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.471

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.558
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.199

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
52.312
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 8.236
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.519
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.614
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.907
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.135

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.883

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:46.680
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 7:0.337
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.404
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.806
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.116

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.014