Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 33 19 Jun 2025, 09:16

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 18:18.810 Failed
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
19.534
Scenario Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Steps
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 10.807
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.650
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.515
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.560
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 5.681 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 01:00:05)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/33/artifact/build-artifacts/01:00:05_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/33/artifact/build-artifacts/01:00:05_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/33/artifact/build-artifacts/01:00:05_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/33/artifact/build-artifacts/01:00:05_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
35.333
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 14.274
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.577
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.842 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 808 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.643
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 7.837 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 1.143
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.015 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 808 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:11.647
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 12.515
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.056
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.571
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 9.300 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.771
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.392 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 2.131
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 12.180 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.438
And I read the content of the test FS 0.710
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.937 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.766
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 10.874 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:50.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.085
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 9.887
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.321
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 56.721
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.207 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 5.897
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 6.553 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.400
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.714 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 8.783
And I read the content of the test FS 0.630
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.756 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.903
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.157 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 812 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:11.503
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 14.194
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.637
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 24.489
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.334
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 9.309 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.023
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.513 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 813 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
13:9.858
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12:26.343
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.461
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 19.999
When I trigger shutdown 0.055
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.998 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 790 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028