Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror 9 21 Jun 2025, 23:45

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 46 1 4 0 0 51 5 1 6 21:21.299 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
1:0.519
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 27.792
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 5.606
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.403
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.587 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.348
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 18.781 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:14.920
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 25.143
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 4.281
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 9.550 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.510
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 15.143 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 1.148
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 17.142 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
2:1.870
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 28.905
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 3.961
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 14.145
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 14.275 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 875 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.054
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 14.795 
Pattern coverage: 89.895% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 2.137
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 17.482 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 875 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.767
And I read the content of the test FS 0.623
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.999 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.810
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 16.911 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 875 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
2:36.188
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 26.412
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 4.779
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 46.821
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.576 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 5.289
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 12.240 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.217
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 18.907 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.069
And I read the content of the test FS 2.793
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 12.334 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.803
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 16.942 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 872 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:24.482
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 27.486
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 6.524
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 24.269
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.859
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.136 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.193 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
13:3.318
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 0.011
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13:3.318
Failed 
Failed to restore snapshot (RuntimeError)
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:89:in `rescue in post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:72:in `post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:167:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:95:in `rescue in post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:72:in `post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:167:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:95:in `rescue in post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:72:in `post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:167:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:95:in `rescue in post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:72:in `post_snapshot_restore_hook'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:167:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:137:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:137: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
Hooks
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 6.898
Error message 
no implicit conversion of nil into String (TypeError)
./features/support/hooks.rb:455:in `exist?'
./features/support/hooks.rb:455:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/support/hooks.rb:450:in `each'
./features/support/hooks.rb:450:in `After'
Output 1 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown' (at time 01:12:08)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/9/artifact/build-artifacts/01:12:08_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_21014-htpdateerror/9/artifact/build-artifacts/01:12:08_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_21014-htpdateerror/9/artifact/build-artifacts/01:12:08_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.mkv
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007