Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_20297-debug-proxy-refusing-connections 119 15 Jul 2025, 23:05

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 13:58.632 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.
40.431
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.013
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.110
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.450
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.346
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 11.919

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

When I kill the allocating process 0.498
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 17.105

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 870 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
47.456
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 8.864
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.567
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 11.094

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.416
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 11.577

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

When I umount "/mnt" 0.481
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.455

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 874 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:28.034
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 8.672
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.704
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.067
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 11.191

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.170
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 12.028

Pattern coverage: 85.949% (109 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)

When I umount the USB drive 0.550
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.359

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.199
And I read the content of the test FS 0.460
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 14.241

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.334
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 15.052

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 860 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
1:49.434
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 8.737
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.521
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 38.794
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 9.822

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.606
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 9.434

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.618
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.349

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.087
And I read the content of the test FS 0.622
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 9.883

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

When I umount the USB drive 0.454
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 11.502

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 862 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
58.033
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 9.655
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.605
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 15.322
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.101
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 8.497

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

When I trigger shutdown 0.024
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.826

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 858 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.000
8:15.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:271 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:278 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:28.725
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.637
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 23.484
When I trigger shutdown 0.052
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.342

Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 908 MiB reference memory)

After features/support/hooks.rb:335 3.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:105 0.013