Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports 4 09 Jul 2025, 07:24

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 19:24.716 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
21.198
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 8.764
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 2.992
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 4.183
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 5.257
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 5.636 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of memory freed by killed userspace processes' (at time 00:46:41)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:41_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:41_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:41_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_ignore-private-backports/4/artifact/build-artifacts/00:46:41_Erasure_of_memory_freed_by_killed_userspace_processes.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
40.346
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 14.755
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.631
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 3.123 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 778 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 2.252
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 12.228 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.542
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 6.811 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 778 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:28.022
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.053
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 14.227
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.780
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 19.477
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 11.935 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 797 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 3.594
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.185 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 1.401
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 13.932 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 797 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.522
And I read the content of the test FS 0.799
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 3.400 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.472
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 14.291 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 797 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
2:6.294
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 26.125
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.591
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 59.428
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 8.230 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.734
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 2.821 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.909
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.916 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 7.875
And I read the content of the test FS 0.926
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 4.232 
Pattern coverage: 106.113% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.671
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 5.830 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 789 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:12.703
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 16.299
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.868
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 24.614
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 3.361
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 6.577 
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 20.969 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 795 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
13:36.149
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 12:50.180
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 1.898
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 22.765
When I trigger shutdown 0.012
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 21.292 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 734 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025