Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 27 11 Jun 2025, 17:54

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 48 1 2 0 0 51 5 1 6 13:29.267 Failed
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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
14.330
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.257
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.959
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 1.414
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.699
99.610% 
99.610% of the expected size (128 MiB) has the pattern, but more than 100.000% was expected.
<false> is not true. (Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError)
./features/step_definitions/erase_memory.rb:186:in `/^patterns cover at least (\d+) MiB in the guest's memory$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:17:in `Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory'
Output 1 
Pattern coverage: 99.610% (127 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.436 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:38:39)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:39_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:39_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:39_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/27/artifact/build-artifacts/00:38:39_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
25.450
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.360
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.958
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.308 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.362
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.756 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.329
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.374 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 786 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
46.932
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.405
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.857
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 9.204
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.797 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.549
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.211 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.992
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.150 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.234
And I read the content of the test FS 0.790
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.324 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.348
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.066 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:16.035
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.396
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.936
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 39.558
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.672 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.503
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.052 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.631
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.903 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.691
And I read the content of the test FS 0.491
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.851 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.737
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.610 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
55.419
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.228
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.869
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.255
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.010
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.097 
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 20.943 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 785 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:51.098
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9:11.476
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.479
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 17.704
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.423 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 747 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012