Bug 32300

Summary:	Plasma systemmonitor: helper is blocked from monitoring network speed
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	REOPENED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins
Version:	9
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	plasma-workspace-5.27.5-5.mga9.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Morgan Leijström 2023-09-17 23:27:12 CEST

Launching /usr/bin/systemmonitor (directly or by CTRL-ESC)
I have added columns for uppload and download speed.
In those columns no results for any process, despite real activity on my ethernet port (surfing, files sync, bittorrent...)

This was working in Mageia 8.

Launching it in terminal, output:

org.kde.ksysguard.plugin.network: Helper process terminated abnormally: "The process doesn't have permission to open the capture source"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plasma-workspace-5.27.5-5.mga9

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2023-09-17 23:50:57 CEST

The package dumpcap (used by wireshark) must be installed and the user must
be a member of the wireshark group to access the network traffic for analysis.
Don't forget to logout/in or reboot after adding the user to the group.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2023-09-18 00:07:34 CEST

Reopening. With the user in the wireshark group it shows the network rates
in the overview, but not in the Applications table. It also doesn't show
the network activity in the processes table.

Resolution: INVALID => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2023-09-18 00:11:22 CEST

No special fiddling was needed in mga8.
This is just speed monitoring, which works in i.e gkrellm.