Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21559-flatpak-locale-tests 5 01 Sep 2026, 20:52

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 7:56.460 Passed
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
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.
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
20.336
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.628
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.281
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.198
# Since Debian Trixie we only get 99.610% coverage (tails#21012)
Then patterns cover at least 127 MiB in the guest's memory 3.174 
Pattern coverage: 100.395% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.293
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 7.760 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1488 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
20.941
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.668
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.339
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.932 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1475 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.635
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.083 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.397
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.883 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1475 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
38.321
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.941
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.306
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 5.201
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.650 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1467 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.758
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.105 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.097
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.120 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1467 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.188
And I read the content of the test FS 0.713
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.072 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.402
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.762 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1467 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:3.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.516
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.343
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 30.048
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.731 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1472 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.190
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.876 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.544
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.695 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1472 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 4.103
And I read the content of the test FS 0.306
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.820 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.484
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.792 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1472 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
45.001
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 6.723
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.336
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 12.818
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.597
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.532 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.017
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.975 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1469 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 3.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
4:48.406
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 4:16.743
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.287
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 10.259
When I trigger shutdown 0.007
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.108 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1456 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 3.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009