Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 109 02 Jul 2025, 20:24

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 13:31.759 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.
28.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.675
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.572
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.900
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.703

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.705
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.472

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 868 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
28.106
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.729
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.733
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.363

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.590
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.995

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.488
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.205

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
53.313
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 9.868
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.621
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 13.271
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.481

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.269
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.616

Pattern coverage: 85.618% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.063
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.251

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.344
And I read the content of the test FS 0.620
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.555

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.341
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.008

Pattern coverage: 0.001% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.002
1:42.249
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.039
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 12.121
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.464
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 54.564
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.309

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.775
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.921

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.929
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.420

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.597
And I read the content of the test FS 0.580
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.590

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.690
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.281

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 867 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
57.839
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 9.120
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.483
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 20.496
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.688
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.922

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 23.110

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 869 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
9:2.220
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8:11.979
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.528
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 27.954
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.745

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.014