Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 16 28 Jun 2025, 23:10

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 14:30.225 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.
34.737
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 8.267
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.042
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.246
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.728

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.736
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 12.714

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
38.150
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.838
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.639
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 9.146

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.987
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.302

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.787
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.448

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:9.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.068
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.732
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 14.832
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.128

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.082
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.386

Pattern coverage: 89.157% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.602
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.603

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 1.166
And I read the content of the test FS 0.549
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 11.260

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.406
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.082

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
1:53.413
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 15.300
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.453
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 58.155
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.411

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.909
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 9.025

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.616
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.321

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.699
And I read the content of the test FS 0.665
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.736

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.102
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.014

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
58.362
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 14.499
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.564
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.847
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.209
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.507

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.717

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
9:15.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:24.529
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 3.738
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 26.071
When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.306

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 921 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013