Public bug reported:
On 11.04 and earlier, iotop could be run without root privileges. On
11.10, however, the following happens when attempting that:
$ iotop
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/iotop", line 16, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 563, in main
main_loop()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 553, in <lambda>
main_loop = lambda: run_iotop(options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 465, in run_iotop
return curses.wrapper(run_iotop_window, options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper
return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 457, in
run_iotop_window
process_list = ProcessList(taskstats_connection, options)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/data.py", line 373, in __init__
self.update_process_counts()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/data.py", line 429, in
update_process_counts
stats = self.taskstats_connection.get_single_task_stats(thread)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/data.py", line 158, in
get_single_task_stats
reply = GeNlMessage.recv(self.connection)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/genetlink.py", line 50, in recv
msg = conn.recv()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iotop/netlink.py", line 229, in recv
raise err
OSError: Netlink error: Operation not permitted (1)
Should at least give a better error message; but preferably, still work.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: iotop 0.4.3-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 9 11:13:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: iotop
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-16 (23 days ago)
** Affects: iotop (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity
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Crashes without root privileges
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