"creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?" even when root

[Erik Nasaroff]

nethogs fails with
"creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?"
even when you're root.

root@drone:~# nethogs eno1
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?
root@drone:~# nethogs eno2
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?
root@drone:~#

user@drone:~$ sudo nethogs eno1
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?
user@drone:~$ sudo nethogs eno2
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd'
user@drone:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release: 16.04

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname'
user@drone:~$ apt-cache policy nethogs
nethogs:
  Installed: 0.8.0-1build1
  Candidate: 0.8.0-1build1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.0-1build1 500
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What you expected to happen
Nethogs should launch and show the programs using the network.

4) What happened instead
Nethogs failed to launch.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nethogs 0.8.0-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-2.16-generic 4.4.0
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 8 23:44:20 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-08 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160208)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nethogs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Wade Menard (wade-ezri)]

This was fixed upstream in 0.8.1. https://github.com/raboof/nethogs/issues/9

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephan Henningsen (zta77)]

Please update the package. And don't forget to backport to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

[TomaszChmielewski (mangoo-wpkg)]

Interestingly, nethogs 0.8.0 works for me with 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 running "3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu" kernel, however, fails to start on Ubuntu 14.04 running "3.13.0-86-generic #130-Ubuntu" kernel (64 bit).

# nethogs eth0
creating socket failed while establishing local IP - are you root?