Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 26 11 Jun 2025, 17:01

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 48 1 2 0 0 51 5 1 6 15:33.021 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
16.770
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.152
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.616
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.414
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.585
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 5.834 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:38:55)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/26/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:55_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/26/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:55_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/26/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:55_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/26/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:55_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
28.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.996
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.596
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.249 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 782 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.963
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.485 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.628
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.330 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 782 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
55.008
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 9.028
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.589
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.714
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.007 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.324
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.704 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.352
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.879 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.280
And I read the content of the test FS 0.802
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.190 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.723
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.410 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.002
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:30.005
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 9.148
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.541
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 42.718
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.063 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.087
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.163 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.822
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.248 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 7.408
And I read the content of the test FS 0.686
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.807 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.124
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.183 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:0.922
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 9.791
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.741
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 23.509
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.597
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.882 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.026
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.374 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
11:22.065
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10:39.296
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.543
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.477
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.734 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 771 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014