Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 117 14 Jul 2025, 19:24

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 12:47.459 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.
27.858
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 10.069
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.654
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.252
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 7.422

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.302
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.157

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
27.109
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 10.631
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.542
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.419

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.540
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.498

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.430
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.046

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
50.351
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 9.294
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.525
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 12.002
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.304

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.233
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.181

Pattern coverage: 86.616% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.733
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.896

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.654
And I read the content of the test FS 0.886
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 0.669
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.737

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:25.454
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 10.511
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.598
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 44.736
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.478

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.695
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.635

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.064
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 7.316

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.021
And I read the content of the test FS 0.544
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.529

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.781
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.539

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 877 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
55.133
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.398
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.509
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.741
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 4.874
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.779

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.027
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.801

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 5.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:41.551
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.061
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:51.333
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.465
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 26.576
When I trigger shutdown 0.657
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.518

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 920 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.012