Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 115 08 Jul 2025, 00:15

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 12:21.831 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.
25.984
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 9.090
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.505
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.360
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.830

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.412
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.784

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 882 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
28.348
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 8.574
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.773
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.633

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.082
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.508

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.634
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.142

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
54.316
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 9.910
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.475
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.182
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.552

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.726
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.410

Pattern coverage: 88.361% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.078
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.683

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.238
And I read the content of the test FS 0.934
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.231

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.489
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.403

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:27.781
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 10.051
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.695
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 43.212
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.757

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.999
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.738

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.908
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.594

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.238
And I read the content of the test FS 0.517
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.088

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.665
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.312

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
52.300
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 9.268
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.552
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.959
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.304
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.092

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 21.101

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:13.099
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:26.248
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.482
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 25.005
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.350

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.013