Bug#725222: mtr invoked by command line does nothing

2013-10-03 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:03:08AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: I'm attaching (as compressed files) the output of running both `sudo strace mtr` and `sudo strace mtr --curses`. That works. strace shows: // from mtr.c: if ( ( net_preopen_result = net_preopen () ) ) {

Bug#725222: mtr invoked by command line does nothing

2013-10-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Rogier and Robert, On Oct 03 2013, Rogier Wolff wrote: and it shows in the strace: getgid32() = 0 setgid32(0) = 0 getuid32() = 0 setuid32(0) = 0 geteuid32()

Bug#725222: mtr invoked by command line does nothing

2013-10-03 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 06:07:42AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: It is a common method, indeed. I don't know how/why mtr uses a pseudo-random generator, though, without having read the code (will read that later, if I still have sufficient interest). mtr sends out (crafted, non-regular) packets

Bug#725222: mtr invoked by command line does nothing

2013-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Package: mtr Version: 0.85-1 Severity: important Hi. I have tried to use mtr on this i386-userland with amd64-kernel installation and, when I fire up mtr via the command line on an X session (don't know if this would be the case under other circumstances, which is why I have filed this as

Bug#725222: mtr invoked by command line does nothing

2013-10-02 Thread Robert Woodcock
On 10/02/2013 06:27 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: I have tried to use mtr on this i386-userland with amd64-kernel installation and, when I fire up mtr via the command line on an X session (don't know if this would be the case under other circumstances, which is why I have filed this as important, not

Bug#725222: mtr invoked by command line does nothing

2013-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Robert. Thanks for the speedy reply. On Oct 02 2013, Robert Woodcock wrote: On 10/02/2013 06:27 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Also, I just tried installing mtr-tiny and I get the same results with EPERM. Note that when you run strace mtr, you are no longer running mtr as root, as Linux