Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 112 05 Jul 2025, 20:41

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 12:13.585 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.
23.898
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 9.122
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.431
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.175
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.325

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.895
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.948

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
28.322
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 9.104
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.487
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.739

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.063
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.493

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.427
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.007

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
55.653
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 11.884
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.443
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 5.966

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.018
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.139

Pattern coverage: 87.972% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.002
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.859

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.397
And I read the content of the test FS 1.176
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.697

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.585
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.468

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:33.463
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 9.999
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.734
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 49.319
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.761

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.152
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.802

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.720
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.507

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.549
And I read the content of the test FS 0.435
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.099

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.492
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.888

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.001
50.338
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.478
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.494
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.925
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.207
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.522

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 20.696

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 4.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:1.908
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 7:19.209
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.662
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 20.392
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.631

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 911 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.066