Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 113 06 Jul 2025, 20:07

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 11:55.840 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.
25.007
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 8.718
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.524
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.406
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.314

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.344
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.698

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.014
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 9.391
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.493
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.486

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.583
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.172

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.791
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.094

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 888 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
47.476
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 8.223
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.423
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.172
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.710

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.270
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.246

Pattern coverage: 91.676% (116 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.268
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.315

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.369
And I read the content of the test FS 0.558
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.599

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.638
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.679

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 891 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:26.711
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 8.959
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.504
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 49.752
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.201

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.739
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.465

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.080
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.297

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.345
And I read the content of the test FS 0.360
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.533

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.536
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.935

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 889 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.001
49.738
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 8.698
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.432
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.365
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.035
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.538

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 20.652

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 885 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:1.891
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:16.367
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.455
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.610
When I trigger shutdown 0.090
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.368

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 917 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.031