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Network History no longer works in System Monitor since 13.10

Bug #1241894 reported by Aditya on 2013-10-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1292509: Missing statistics for `tx_bytes`, `tx_packets`, `rx_bytes` and `rx_packets` since Ubuntu 13.10. Edit Remove

This bug affects 15 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The graph for Network History in Resources tab does not update. Neither does the received and sent data relating to Network History get updated. All the data is just stuck at 0.

This started happening after an upgrade to 13.10 from 13.04. It worked perfectly well on 13.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-system-monitor 3.8.2.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 19 06:39:18 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-06 (104 days ago)
InstallationMedia: This
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (0 days ago)

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Aditya (code-aditya) wrote on 2013-10-19:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (100 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-10-21:

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

Changed in gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Gal Miara (miara-gal) wrote on 2013-10-21:

ubuntu 13.10, 64 bit

0 net activity on the monitor.
same on the devices tab in network tools.
"netstat -s --raw" seems to work fine.

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Aditya (code-aditya) wrote on 2014-03-14:

I have filed a bug in linux package which I think is the root of the issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1292509

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Aditya (code-aditya) wrote on 2014-04-24:

Using the mainline kernel v3.14 and above solves this issue.

summary:

- Network History no longer works in System Monitor on 13.10
+ Network History no longer works in System Monitor since 13.10

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waffen (mlacunza) wrote on 2014-06-22:

Confirmed for Ubuntu 14.04 with Qualcomm Atheros QCA8172 Fast Ethernet

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) wrote on 2014-10-24:

This works just fine in the final release of Ubuntu 14.10, which has Linux 3.16.0. I think this bug should be marked fixed.

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waffen (mlacunza) wrote on 2014-10-24:

Yes I can confirm, yesterday I made an upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10 64bits and the problem is fixed.

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Brandon Bradley (blbradley) wrote on 2015-01-15:

I switched to kernel 3.14.1-trusty, and the problem is fixed. Credit goes to this AskUbuntu question:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/409007/why-doesnt-system-monitor-show-activity-over-ethernet-connections

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2018-01-26:

#10

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 13.10 reached EOL on July 17, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

I've tried recreating this bug with your release and was unable to, given the information you've provided. Please upgrade to the latest version and re-test. If the bug is still reproducible, increase the verbosity of the steps to recreate it so we can try again.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete

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Aditya (code-aditya) wrote on 2018-01-26:

#11

Hi Robert, the problem was with linux kernel and it has been fixed in kernel v3.14 and later. Since kernel v4.4 HWE is available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and all other supported Ubuntu versions come with kernel v3.14+, the issue no longer persists.

As such I guess the bug should be marked as fixed. There is one caveat - Ubuntu 12.04 ESM has kernel v3.13 HWE.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2018-02-04:

#12

Hi Aditya. Unfortunately, if the kernel had an issue and that is not available in a single version (Ubuntu 12.04 ESM), I can't do anything on the system-monitor side to fix the network statistics. Therefore I am marking this as a duplicate of the linux kernel bug.