Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 118 14 Jul 2025, 21:22

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 16:6.139 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.
37.779
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 14.043
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.045
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.800
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.418

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.519
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 15.951

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 886 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
40.988
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 9.406
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 4.480
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 6.305

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.700
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.116

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.719
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 14.259

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:13.774
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 14.904
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.006
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 12.295
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 10.351

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.385
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.106

Pattern coverage: 86.561% (110 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.505
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.808

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.373
And I read the content of the test FS 0.628
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.025

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.098
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.284

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 892 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 2.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.001
2:0.258
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 9.544
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 4.534
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 57.809
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 7.806

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.996
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.596

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.124
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.263

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.468
And I read the content of the test FS 0.693
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.355

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.795
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.271

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:3.480
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 15.201
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.931
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 20.612
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.222
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.511

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 20.980

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
10:29.858
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 9:37.068
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.529
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 29.326
When I trigger shutdown 0.215
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.717

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.023