Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 95 17 Jun 2025, 22:02

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 12:32.748 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.
30.082
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 8.955
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.960
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.608
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 8.464

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.288
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.805

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 907 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
32.855
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 11.968
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.703
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.346

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.121
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.769

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.977
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.967

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
59.065
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 9.137
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.019
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.519
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.580

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 5.251
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.748

Pattern coverage: 92.466% (117 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.566
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.376

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.346
And I read the content of the test FS 0.657
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 7.059

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.550
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.252

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:31.888
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 11.034
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.496
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 45.110
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.044

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.856
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.511

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.718
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.082

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.576
And I read the content of the test FS 0.576
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.994

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.624
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.261

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
51.561
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 9.312
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.601
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.875
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.918
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.008

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 20.833

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 905 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:7.295
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:22.401
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.572
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.971
When I trigger shutdown 0.018
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.331

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.010