Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 99 22 Jun 2025, 19:51

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 11:33.079 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.
26.237
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 9.922
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.749
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.787
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.633

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.165
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.978

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 901 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.018
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.019
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.033
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.420
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.580

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.930
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.145

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.825
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.083

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
46.484
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 9.071
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.429
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.170
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.147

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.677
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.337

Pattern coverage: 88.358% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.940
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.545

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.260
And I read the content of the test FS 0.652
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.313

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.440
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.496

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:27.430
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 9.279
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.567
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 48.097
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.537

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.133
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.883

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.706
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.588

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.967
And I read the content of the test FS 0.494
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.565

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.312
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.297

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
53.803
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 8.765
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.481
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.884
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.290
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.455

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 20.911

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 893 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:34.104
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6:50.442
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.410
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.079
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.157

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.011