Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 48 08 Jul 2025, 11:13

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 14:36.219 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
17.160
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 8.906
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.751
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.713
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 4.788
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 5.469 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:41:46)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/48/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:46_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/48/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:46_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/48/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:46_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie/48/artifact/build-artifacts/00:41:46_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
27.381
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 8.797
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.853
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.749 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.334
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.896 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.458
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.290 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
57.520
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 9.551
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.774
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 11.506
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 4.086 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.615
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.033 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.256
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 8.870 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.442
And I read the content of the test FS 1.305
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.970 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.488
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.618 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 798 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:26.751
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 9.055
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.902
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 43.830
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.187 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 804 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.846
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.397 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.035
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.531 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 804 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.268
And I read the content of the test FS 0.637
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.661 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.077
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.319 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 804 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
57.998
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 9.067
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.753
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 21.097
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 1.479
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 3.484 
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 22.099 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 800 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
10:29.407
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 9:47.826
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.492
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 19.666
When I trigger shutdown 0.015
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.406 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 779 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012