Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 86 07 Jun 2025, 18:31

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 10:53.406 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.
23.249
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 7.942
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.377
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.539
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.178

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.640
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.571

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 894 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
25.148
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 8.084
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.403
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.496

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.972
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.006

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.582
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.602

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
46.802
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 7.877
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.429
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.163
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.339

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.634
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.027

Pattern coverage: 90.565% (115 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.824
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.539

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.280
And I read the content of the test FS 0.473
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.150

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.396
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.664

Pattern coverage: 0.001% (0 MiB out of 881 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:11.760
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 8.205
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.430
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 35.455
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.806

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.665
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.556

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.654
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.679

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.190
And I read the content of the test FS 0.432
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.238

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.505
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.940

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
48.599
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 7.942
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.385
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 14.951
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.922
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.563

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.820

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
7:17.844
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 6:34.648
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.422
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 21.421
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.339

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.012