Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 82 03 Jun 2025, 18:42

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 10:44.055 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.
22.337
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 8.185
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.457
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.229
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.521

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.687
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.254

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
24.014
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 8.076
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.435
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.211

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.615
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.668

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.264
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.742

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
45.600
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 8.149
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.414
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.838
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.264

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.528
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.551

Pattern coverage: 87.225% (111 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.783
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.910

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.228
And I read the content of the test FS 0.640
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.689

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.632
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.969

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:9.137
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 8.011
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.381
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 33.084
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.592

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.680
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.574

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.651
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.548

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.127
And I read the content of the test FS 0.984
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.401

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.514
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.584

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 879 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
51.192
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 8.124
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.392
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 17.379
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.672
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.818

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.792

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:11.773
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 6:28.096
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.390
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.015
When I trigger shutdown 0.016
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.254

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 913 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.013