After upgrading my kernel to gentoo-sources-3.1.0 iotop dies with Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/iotop-2.7", line 16, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 563, in main main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 553, in <lambda> main_loop = lambda: run_iotop(options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 465, in run_iotop return curses.wrapper(run_iotop_window, options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 457, in run_iotop_window process_list = ProcessList(taskstats_connection, options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/data.py", line 373, in __init__ self.update_process_counts() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/data.py", line 429, in update_process_counts stats = self.taskstats_connection.get_single_task_stats(thread) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/data.py", line 158, in get_single_task_stats reply = GeNlMessage.recv(self.connection) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/genetlink.py", line 50, in recv msg = conn.recv() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/netlink.py", line 229, in recv raise err OSError: Netlink error: Operation not permitted (1) Reproducible: Always emerge --info sys-process/iotop Portage 2.2.0_alpha71 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.1.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.0-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_955_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:15:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.6 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.6 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1, 4.6.1-r1, 4.7.0_pre9999::local sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r4 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo local sunrise Installed sets: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb /var/lib/neatx/home" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.iso88591" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 atm avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gdu gfortran gif gimp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 iconv ipv6 jpeg kde lapack lcms libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-process/iotop-0.4.3 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)"
I'm getting this message for iotop 0.4.4: $ iotop Netlink error: Operation not permitted (1) iotop requires root or the NET_ADMIN capability. I don't see why would it need that capability, I don't have any network fs mounted. And does it really need admin cap just for reading the usage? Portage 2.1.10.40 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.6.2, glibc-2.14.1-r1, 3.1.5-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.1.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2630QM_CPU_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.7-r2, 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.7 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1, 4.6.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r1 Repositories: gentoo x11 science local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs compress-build-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parallel-install protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tups.lv/source/ " LANG="lv_LV.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="lv en" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/science /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avx bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cdr cjk cleartype cli colord consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dirac djvu dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gphoto2 gpm gsm gstreamer gtk gtk3 iconv idn ipv6 jpeg kate lcms ldap libcaca libnotify live mad matroska mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp mudflap multilib musepack nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio qt3support qt4 raw readline schroedinger sdl session smp socialweb speex spell sse sse2 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs system-sqlite tcpd theora tiff truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vorbis wmf x264 xcb xetex xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp1018" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="lv en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nvidia i965 intel vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-process/iotop-0.4.4 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)"
This is the kernel commit https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
Reassigning to new maintainer.
*** Bug 403521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So after a short discussion on the gentoo-dev ml [1] we will restrict this to work as root only. [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_aad7c39f4ae32c0a141c8462ee4f7c54.xml
*** Bug 792300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
