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[Robert Roth <917233@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 910845 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/910845

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 910845
   Message "Cannot change the priority of process" is displayed when a normal user selects a high priority process

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917233

Title:
  Under 11.10, I don't have permission to renice processes using the
  Gnome System Monitor

Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  No matter which way I attempt it, whether from the app's main menu or
  from the context-sensitive (right-click) menu for a process, I get a
  permission denied error when I attempt to change the "nice" level of a
  running process.  The only way I can do it is if I open a terminal
  window and execute the "renice" command using "sudo" to run it as
  root.  I never had to do that before I upgraded to 11.10, as far as I
  can recall.

  This appears to be an issue with requiring root-level privileges to
  make the change, as executing "renmice" without "sudo" also results in
  a permission denied error.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-system-monitor 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.24-generic 3.0.13
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jan 16 01:26:03 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-23 (84 days ago)

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