Bug 571876 – net-analyzer/nethogs-0.8.0-r4 with kernel >=4.3.0 - nethogs: creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description poncho 2016-01-14 10:57:46 UTC]

~ # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
~ # nethogs wl0
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?
~ # 

this is fixed in nethogs 0.8.1
see: https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/issues/9

[Comment 1 poncho 2016-01-14 11:03:17 UTC]

Created attachment 422870 [details, diff]
nethogs-0.8.1.patch

[Comment 2 poncho 2016-01-14 16:32:13 UTC]

Hi Jeroen
Was there something wrong with my patch? Why did you mark it as obsolete?

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2016-01-15 06:16:18 UTC]

Comment on attachment 422870 [details, diff]
nethogs-0.8.1.patch

>diff --git a/net-analyzer/nethogs/nethogs-0.8.1.ebuild b/net-analyzer/nethogs/nethogs-0.8.1.ebuild
>index 8629980..0fe6a4b 100644
>--- a/net-analyzer/nethogs/nethogs-0.8.1.ebuild
>+++ b/net-analyzer/nethogs/nethogs-0.8.1.ebuild
>@@ -4,15 +4,13 @@
> 
> EAPI=5
> 
>-inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
>-

Why did you drop these?

> DESCRIPTION="A small 'net top' tool, grouping bandwidth by process"
>-HOMEPAGE="http://nethogs.sf.net/"
>-SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
>+HOMEPAGE="https://raboof.github.io/nethogs/"
>+SRC_URI="https://github.com/raboof/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"

OK.

>-LICENSE="GPL-1"
>+LICENSE="GPL-2"

OK.

> SLOT="0"
>-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ~ia64 x86"
>+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"

You dropped unstable keywords, why?

> RDEPEND="
> 	net-libs/libpcap
>@@ -23,11 +21,9 @@ DEPEND="
> 	virtual/pkgconfig
> "
> 
>-DOCS=( Changelog DESIGN README )
>-
>-S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}
>+DOCS=( Changelog DESIGN README.md )
> 
>-src_prepare() {
>-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gentoo.patch
>-	tc-export CC CXX PKG_CONFIG

Now the wrong compiler is used and pkg-config is not used. This breaks cross-compiling and building against sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo], respectively (or whichever comes first).

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2016-01-15 06:18:36 UTC]

0.8.1 in the tree. Thanks for the report!