Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 105 28 Jun 2025, 20:25

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 12:16.584 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.
22.661
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.251
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.707
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.352
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.044

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.724
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.581

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 875 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
24.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.965
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.568
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.423

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.905
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.159

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.353
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.771

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
46.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.320
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.454
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.616
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.728

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.447
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.126

Pattern coverage: 84.978% (108 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.749
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.937

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.278
And I read the content of the test FS 0.613
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.605

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.419
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.674

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:18.457
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.404
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.468
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.757
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.669

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.104
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.789

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.371
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.228

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.242
And I read the content of the test FS 0.419
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.629

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.657
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.715

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
59.180
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.502
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.530
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 23.587
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.964
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.713

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.021
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.859

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:25.164
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:38.947
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.442
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 24.345
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.415

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 887 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.021