Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 110 03 Jul 2025, 20:51

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 12:6.494 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.
24.353
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 10.020
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.488
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.239
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.755

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.843
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.005

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 880 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
26.480
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 10.216
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.680
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.691

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.908
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.648

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.441
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.892

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
50.676
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.630
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.510
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.945
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.854

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.533
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.562

Pattern coverage: 86.680% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.954
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.489

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.259
And I read the content of the test FS 0.684
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.849

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.117
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.284

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:20.284
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 10.060
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.456
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 41.989
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.401

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.678
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.275

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.634
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.166

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.419
And I read the content of the test FS 0.560
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.759

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 5.302

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.001
51.164
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 9.248
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.425
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.124
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.902
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.722

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 20.726

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:13.534
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:29.271
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.571
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.072
When I trigger shutdown 0.034
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.585

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.011