Package: iotop Version: 0.6-24-g733f3f8-1 Severity: important Tags: upstream
I'm afraid there's a flaw in the version of iotop available in Debian (even in sid): retpoline support adds a blank line to /proc/<pid>/status, which iotop was not able to deal with before May of 2018. The effect of this is a crash with a Python stack-trace. It affects all usage of iotop on any kernels with spectre mitigation. The upstream commit that addresses the issue is also the most recent one since then: https://repo.or.cz/iotop.git/commit/7c51ce0e29bd135c216f18e18f0c4ab769af0d6f -- System Information: Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian Release: testing Codename: buster Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages iotop depends on: ii python3 3.7.1-3 iotop recommends no packages. iotop suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
