Apparmor prevents opening usbmon

Bug #523345 reported by Pekka Pessi
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tcpdump (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Jamie Strandboge

Bug Description

Binary package hint: tcpdump

The apparmor profile prevents tcpdump from opening /dev/usbmon*, eg.,

tcpdump -i usbmon0 -w /tmp/dump

fails (with a strange error message because of libpcap problem).

Related branches

Changed in tcpdump (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
status: In Progress → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package tcpdump - 4.0.0-6ubuntu3

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tcpdump (4.0.0-6ubuntu3) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/usr.sbin.tcpdump: allow access for usbmon (LP: #523345)
 -- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:31:59 -0500

Changed in tcpdump (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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