Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 116 08 Jul 2025, 21:50

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 43 1 7 0 0 51 5 1 6 33:41.404 Failed
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.
42.001
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.752
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 5.068
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.177
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.536

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

When I kill the allocating process 1.260
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 17.206

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 854 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:8.564
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 25.202
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.290
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 12.477

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.373
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 14.734

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.178
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 10.306

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 865 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:42.484
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 13.249
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 4.446
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 15.602
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 14.115

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.180
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 13.235

Pattern coverage: 89.206% (113 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 2.389
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.370

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.333
And I read the content of the test FS 3.097
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 11.636

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.411
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 14.415

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:40.888
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches on unmount: LUKS-encrypted ext4
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 15.251
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.866
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 56.837
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 10.517

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 4.419
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 10.996
88.433% of the test FS size (91.490234375 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 99.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:170:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+)% of the test FS size in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:54:in `Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory'
Output 1

Pattern coverage: 88.433% (80 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 0.000
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.000
And I read the content of the test FS 0.000
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 0.000
When I umount the USB drive 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 7.301

SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches on unmount: LUKS-encrypted ext4' (at time 00:45:11)

Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections/116/artifact/build-artifacts/00:45:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_LUKS-encrypted_ext4.file_content_var_log_boot.log

Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections/116/artifact/build-artifacts/00:45:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_LUKS-encrypted_ext4.png

Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections/116/artifact/build-artifacts/00:45:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_LUKS-encrypted_ext4.mkv

Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections/116/artifact/build-artifacts/00:45:11_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_on_unmount:_LUKS-encrypted_ext4.journal

After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.010
1:17.348
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.020
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 21.591
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 3.909
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 24.701
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.383
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.581

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.053
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.128

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 854 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 4.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
27:10.116
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 26:8.707
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.744
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 34.087
When I trigger shutdown 0.694
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 25.882

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 929 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.050