Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 89 11 Jun 2025, 18:55

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 12:5.001 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.
26.961
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 9.283
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.467
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.047
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.357

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.951
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 8.854

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
27.203
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 8.405
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.430
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.039

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.903
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.028

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.588
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.807

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 890 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
52.555
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 8.829
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.527
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.305
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.052

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

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.432
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.424

Pattern coverage: 88.113% (112 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.872
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.985

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

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.319
And I read the content of the test FS 0.758
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.221

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.652
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.173

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:22.487
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 11.371
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.528
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 37.687
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.166

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.798
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.432

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.951
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.084

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.415
And I read the content of the test FS 0.959
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.338

Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.479
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.273

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 876 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
54.330
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.214
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.712
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 18.494
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.055
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.947

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 20.891

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

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:1.464
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 7:16.619
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 23.018
When I trigger shutdown 0.011
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.348

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 898 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.016