Ubuntu
iotop package

  1. Bug #879767
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 879767

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Paul Wise (Debian) (pabs) wrote :

As I wrote in the Debian bugreport about this, Linux no longer allows non-root users to get at the per-process I/O throughput information needed by iotop, as a result if it causing security issues (CVE-2011-2494):

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/1/170

The crash itself will be replaced by an error when iotop is next syncronised from Debian.