iotop 0.4.4 has reached Ubuntu, so iotop will no longer crash. Linux itself now requires root privileges to access the information required by iotop. This was changed in response to the discovery of a security issue (CVE-2011-2494) caused by exposing the taskstats data to non-root users.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2011-2494 status fixreleased ** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-2494 ** Changed in: iotop (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897411 Title: iotop crashes every start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iotop/+bug/897411/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
