mtr-paquet: Failure to open IPv4 sockets: Operation not permitted

Bug #1809015 reported by Joseph Maillardet
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mtr (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Since I have upgraded my system from 18.04 to 18.10, I was unable to use mtr without root privilege.

$ mtr 9.9.9.9
Failure to open IPv4 sockets: Operation not permitted
Failure to open IPv6 sockets: Operation not permitted
mtr: Failure to start mtr-packet: Invalid argument

With sudo, everything work great.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: mtr-tiny 0.92-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-12.13-generic 4.18.17
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Dec 18 18:15:05 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mtr
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-12-10 (8 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2015-11-27T14:42:56.796345

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Joseph Maillardet (jokx) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in mtr (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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