Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 87 08 Jun 2025, 18:32

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 11:11.484 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.
24.642
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 8.065
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.433
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.427
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.148

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.857
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.709

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.934
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 8.653
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.487
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.621

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.346
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.902

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.019
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.903

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
48.022
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 8.039
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.408
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.028
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.400

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.646
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.039

Pattern coverage: 90.715% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.277
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.548

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.248
And I read the content of the test FS 1.008
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.891

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.756
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.728

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:17.721
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 8.017
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.424
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 40.136
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.907

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.732
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.360

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.748
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.955

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.199
And I read the content of the test FS 0.453
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.393

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.511
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.880

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
49.548
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 8.022
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.392
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.621
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.687
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.948

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 20.862

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 878 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:25.615
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 6:41.813
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.416
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.118
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.254

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.012