Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 38 25 Jun 2025, 08:14

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 15:1.637 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
18.199
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 8.398
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.707
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 3.500
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.593
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 5.277 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:41:25)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/38/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:25_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/38/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:25_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/38/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:25_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/38/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:25_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
30.809
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 10.296
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.896
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.053 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 796 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.258
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.206 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.961
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 9.135 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 796 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.514
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 9.513
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.636
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 14.325
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.787 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.892
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 5.895 
Pattern coverage: 99.807% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.974
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.124 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.191
And I read the content of the test FS 0.616
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.845 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.467
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.243 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:28.490
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 9.036
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.730
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 49.260
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 2.894 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 791 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.958
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.338 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.622
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.378 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 791 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 6.226
And I read the content of the test FS 0.681
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.622 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.606
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.133 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 791 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.980
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 9.178
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.723
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.936
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.358
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 2.818 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.040
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 20.925 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 790 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
10:50.643
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 10:9.551
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.621
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 19.033
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.423 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 777 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066