Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 88 09 Jun 2025, 18:41

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 12:30.351 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.
26.143
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 8.016
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.471
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.402
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.557

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.983
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.710

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
26.891
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 8.286
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.395
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.789

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

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.255
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.082

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

When I umount "/mnt" 1.244
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.837

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
55.353
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 9.328
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.429
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.154
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.669

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.530
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.734

Pattern coverage: 89.714% (114 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 1.250
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.594

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.231
And I read the content of the test FS 5.490
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.970

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.412
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.556

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 884 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:24.664
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 9.000
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.458
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.480
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.108

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.125
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.575

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

When I umount the USB drive 1.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.408

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 9.064
And I read the content of the test FS 0.571
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.584

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.596
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.674

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
51.474
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 8.396
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.418
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 16.798
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.995
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.035

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.815

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 883 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:25.823
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 7:39.990
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.987
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.590
When I trigger shutdown 0.020
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.233

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 895 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.014