My new machine (one week old) is receiving these as well: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Release: 18.04
$ journalctl | grep "operation=\"open\" profile=\"snap.gnome-system-monitor.gnome" | wc -l 77549 which half the log! $ journalctl | wc -l 144263 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791454 Title: system-monitor produces many apparmor permission denied warnings Status in gnome-system-monitor package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: gnome-system-monitor (installed as snap, latest stable version) on Ubuntu 18.04.1 causes while running many warnings in the system log of the following type: audit[2095]: AVC apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="snap .gnome-system-monitor.gnome-system-monitor" name="/proc/2932/wchan" pid=2095 comm="gnome-system-mo" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000 audit[2095]: AVC apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="snap .gnome-system-monitor.gnome-system-monitor" name="/proc/1/cgroup" pid=2095 comm="gnome-system-mo" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 The output of journalctl | grep "operation=\"open\" profile=\"snap.gnome-system-monitor.gnome" | wc -l amounts on my system to 4 924 215 . For comparison journalctl | wc -l amounts to 5 143 715 . Thus it is really spamming my system log. output of snap info gnome-system-monitor is attached. output of lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/1791454/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp