Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5941 10 Nov 2025, 16:49

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
System memory erasure on shutdown 46 1 4 0 0 51 5 1 6 13:56.167 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
46.695
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 8.783
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.442
When I start a process allocating 128 MiB of memory with a known pattern 2.272
# Since Debian Trixie we only get 99.610% coverage (tails#21012)
Then patterns cover at least 127 MiB in the guest's memory 15.254 
Pattern coverage: 100.394% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I kill the allocating process 1.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 5 seconds 18.941 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1489 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
56.691
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 8.387
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.394
And I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 13.842 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1489 MiB reference memory)
When I mount a 128 MiB tmpfs on "/mnt" and fill it with a known pattern 1.926
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 14.823 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I umount "/mnt" 0.505
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 16.811 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1489 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
1:43.800
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 8.443
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.463
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with a vfat filesystem 8.175
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 14.001 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1503 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 2.905
Then patterns cover at least 75% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 15.513 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.985
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 19.144 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1503 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 0.188
And I read the content of the test FS 0.794
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 14.896 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (127 MiB out of 127 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.508
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 17.780 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1503 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
2:3.717
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 8.310
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.522
When I plug and mount a 128 MiB USB drive with an ext4 filesystem encrypted with password "asdf" 32.482
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory 13.430 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1488 MiB reference memory)
# write cache
When I fill the USB drive with a known pattern 1.858
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 14.490 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.731
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 15.768 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1488 MiB reference memory)
# read cache
When I mount the USB drive again 5.396
And I read the content of the test FS 0.663
Then patterns cover at least 99% of the test FS size in the guest's memory 13.624 
Pattern coverage: 106.115% (97 MiB out of 91 MiB reference memory)
When I umount the USB drive 0.740
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 3 seconds 15.697 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1488 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
55.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD without network and logged in 8.790
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.426
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the root filesystem 10.588
# ensure the pattern is in memory due to tmpfs, not to disk cache
And I drop all kernel caches 2.840
Then patterns cover at least 128 MiB in the guest's memory 10.293 
Pattern coverage: 100.000% (128 MiB out of 128 MiB reference memory)
When I trigger shutdown 0.013
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 22.850 
Pattern coverage: 0.000% (0 MiB out of 1507 MiB reference memory)
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @slow @not_release_blocker
7:29.459
Scenario Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Steps
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7:29.459
Command 
Command failed: systemctl reload tails-persistent-storage.service
error code: 1
stdout: 
stderr: Job for tails-persistent-storage.service failed.
See "systemctl status tails-persistent-storage.service" and "journalctl -xeu tails-persistent-storage.service" for details.

<false> is not true. (ExecutionFailedInVM)
./features/support/helpers/vm_helper.rb:496:in `rescue in execute_successfully'
./features/support/helpers/vm_helper.rb:493:in `execute_successfully'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:72:in `tps_reload'
./features/step_definitions/usb.rb:753:in `/^all tps features(| from the old Tails version)(| but the first one) are active$/'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:153:in `block in reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `each'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:150:in `reach_checkpoint'
./features/step_definitions/snapshots.rb:173:in `/^I\ have\ started\ Tails\ without\ network\ from\ a\ USB\ drive\ with\ a\ persistent\ partition\ enabled\ and\ logged\ in$/'
features/erase_memory.feature:76:in `Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in'
And I prepare Tails for memory erasure tests 0.000
When I fill a 128 MiB file with a known pattern on the persistent filesystem 0.000
When I trigger shutdown 0.000
Then I find very few patterns in the guest's memory after 20 seconds 0.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.325 
SCENARIO FAILED: 'Erasure of read and write disk caches of persistent data on shutdown' (at time 00:42:44)
Boot log: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5941/artifact/build-artifacts/00:42:44_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.file_content_var_log_boot.log
Screenshot: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5941/artifact/build-artifacts/00:42:44_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.png
Video: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5941/artifact/build-artifacts/00:42:44_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.mkv
Systemd journal: https://jenkins.tails.boum.org/job/test_Tails_ISO_stable/5941/artifact/build-artifacts/00:42:44_Erasure_of_read_and_write_disk_caches_of_persistent_data_on_shutdown.journal
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015