Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4437 08 Jun 2026, 11:05

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Emergency shutdown 36 0 0 0 0 36 5 0 5 4:26.810 Passed
Feature Emergency shutdown
As a Tails user when I unplug my Tails device to trigger emergency shutdown I want the system memory to be free from sensitive data.
43.928
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in and the network is connected 34.577
When I eject the boot medium 0.181
Then Tails eventually shuts down 9.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
35.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.493
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.300
And I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 20.678
And patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.011

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

When I eject the boot medium 0.239
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 4.975
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.582

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1485 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
22.766
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.689
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.319
And I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 5.218
And I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.613
And I read the content of the test FS 0.061
And patterns cover at least 90% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.073

Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I eject the boot medium 0.199
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 5.085
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.506

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1495 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
42.706
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.528
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.375
And I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 28.112
And I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.028
And I read the content of the test FS 0.060
And patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 1.788

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

When I eject the boot medium 0.208
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 4.089
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.515

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1476 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
2:2.126
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.592
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.324
And I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 16.590
And patterns cover at least 100 MiB in the guest's memory 1.900

Pattern coverage: 128.000% (128 MiB out of 100 MiB reference memory)

When I eject the boot medium 0.337
And I wait for Tails to finish wiping the memory 5.189
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 0.577

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1518 MiB reference memory)

And Tails eventually shuts down 1:29.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000