Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3812 15 May 2025, 09:49

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 11:55.285 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
25.130
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 8.778
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.394
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 3.431 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.378
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.743 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
27.475
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 8.357
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.455
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.657 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.975
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.848 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.879
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.301 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
54.884
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 8.651
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.612
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.300
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.910 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.210
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.926 
Pattern coverage: 89.001% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 2.312
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.958 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.475
And I read the content of the test FS 2.589
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.031 
Pattern coverage: 100.596% (128 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.514
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.390 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:16.467
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 8.312
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.639
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 33.563
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.340 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.848
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.428 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.035
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.951 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.743
And I read the content of the test FS 2.826
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.751 
Pattern coverage: 106.116% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.580
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.446 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:0.418
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 9.121
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.454
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 24.414
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.322
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.168 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.922 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 900 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:50.908
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 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:50.908
Feature 
Feature 'GnuPG' is not active.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:760:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:755:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:755:in `/^all tps features(| from the old Tails version)(| but the first one) are active$/'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:153:in `block in reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:173:in `/^I\ have\ started\ Tails\ without\ network\ from\ a\ USB\ drive\ with\ a\ persistent\ partition\ enabled\ and\ logged\ in$/'
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 6.183 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown' (at time 00:46:42)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3812/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:42_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_devel/3812/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3812/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_devel/3812/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:42_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010