Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input 11 14 Jun 2025, 04:38

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 43 2 6 0 0 51 4 2 6 11:27.389 Failed
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
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.
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
15.959
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.505
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.913
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.348
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.191
99.610% 
99.610% of the expected size (128 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 100.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:186:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+) MiB in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:17:in `Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory'
Output 1 
Pattern coverage: 99.610% (127 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.217 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:37:30)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:30_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:30_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:30_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:37:30_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
26.542
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.539
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.976
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.158 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.667
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.541 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.826
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.832 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
52.909
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.734
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.878
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.234
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.286 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.769
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.984 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.472
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.799 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.255
And I read the content of the test FS 0.863
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.491 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.909
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.229 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:21.818
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.485
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.980
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 41.803
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.824 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.709
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.024 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.008
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.995 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.827
And I read the content of the test FS 0.584
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.002 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.746
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.824 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.183
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.853
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.698
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.210
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.963 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.018
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.031 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:33.200
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:33.200
Ponytail 
Ponytail failed while pressing key combo: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received
STDOUT:

STDERR:
Exception ignored in: <function Ponytail.__del__ at 0x7c18961277e0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ponytail/ponytail.py", line 51, in __del__
    if (self.connected):
AttributeError: 'Ponytail' object has no attribute 'connected'

 (RuntimeError)
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:344:in `ponytail_press'
./features/support/helpers/screen.rb:352:in `press'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:679:in `/^I try to enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:703:in `/^I enable persistence( with the changed passphrase)?$/'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:153:in `block in reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:173:in `/^I\ have\ started\ Tails\ without\ network\ from\ a\ USB\ drive\ with\ a\ persistent\ partition\ enabled\ and\ logged\ in$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:75:in `Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in'
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.000
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 0.000
When I trigger shutdown 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.986 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown' (at time 00:48:54)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:48:54_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:48:54_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:48:54_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21002-ponytail-keyboard-input/11/artifact/build-artifacts/00:48:54_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012