Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 36 23 Jun 2025, 08:25

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 12:58.271 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
15.551
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 8.749
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.833
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.399
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.569
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 5.680 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:41:26)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/36/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:26_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/36/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:26_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/36/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:26_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/36/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:26_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
23.762
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 8.205
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.091
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.677 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.552
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.947 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.836
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.452 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 807 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
45.491
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 8.369
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.031
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 10.257
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.643 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 808 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.420
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.007 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.603
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.288 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 808 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.216
And I read the content of the test FS 0.583
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.821 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.404
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.844 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 808 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:16.492
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 8.206
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.857
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 42.037
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.435 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.672
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.722 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.788
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.424 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 3.648
And I read the content of the test FS 0.472
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.183 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.621
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.422 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 809 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
55.620
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.600
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.866
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.533
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.320
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.434 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.852 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 811 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
9:21.353
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 8:41.558
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.528
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 17.978
When I trigger shutdown 0.014
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.272 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 780 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011