nice fails with EACCES/Permission denied #1838

iltep64 · 2017-03-31T11:58:31Z

nice fails to set priority on process, failing with permission denied.

Expected (build <=14986)

$ nice -n 5 nice
5

Actual (build >=15048)

$ nice -n 5 nice
nice: cannot set nicencess: Permission denied
0

Windows build
15063 (issue started on 15048)
Steps / All commands required to reproduce the error from a brand new installation
Run nice -n 5 nice.
Strace of the failing command

execve("/usr/bin/nice", ["nice", "-n", "5", "nice"], [/* 12 vars */]) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x7ee000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ffb68ac0000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24701, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 24701, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7ffb68ab9000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0P\t\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1864888, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 3967392, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7ffb68430000
mprotect(0x7ffb685ef000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7ffb687ef000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1bf000) = 0x7ffb687ef000
mmap(0x7ffb687f5000, 14752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ffb687f5000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ffb68ab0000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ffb68aa0000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7ffb68a90000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7ffb68aa0700) = 0
mprotect(0x7ffb687ef000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x607000, 4096, PROT_READ)     = 0
mprotect(0x7ffb68a25000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7ffb68ab9000, 24701)           = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x7ee000
brk(0x80f000)                           = 0x80f000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1668976, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1668976, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7ffb6888d000
close(3)                                = 0
getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)            = 20
setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 5)         = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2995, ...}) = 0
read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 512) = 512
read(3, "See the\n# GNU General Public Lic"..., 512) = 512
read(3, "nd for the time being for\n# back"..., 512) = 512
read(3, "hese lines were removed\n# becaus"..., 512) = 512
read(3, "8859-1\ngalego\t\tgl_ES.ISO-8859-1\n"..., 512) = 512
read(3, "O.ISO-8859-1 nb_NO.ISO-8859-1\nno"..., 512) = 435
read(3, "", 512)                        = 0
close(3)                                = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "nice: ", 6nice: )                   = 6
write(2, "cannot set niceness", 19cannot set niceness)     = 19
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, ": Permission denied", 19: Permission denied)     = 19
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
execve("/usr/local/sbin/nice", ["nice"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/local/bin/nice", ["nice"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/sbin/nice", ["nice"], [/* 12 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/bin/nice", ["nice"], [/* 12 vars */]) = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x1357000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f99a5ca0000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24701, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 24701, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f99a5ca3000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0P\t\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1864888, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 3967392, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7f99a5630000
mprotect(0x7f99a57ef000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap(0x7f99a59ef000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1bf000) = 0x7f99a59ef000
mmap(0x7f99a59f5000, 14752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f99a59f5000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f99a5c90000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f99a5c80000
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f99a5c70000
arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7f99a5c80700) = 0
mprotect(0x7f99a59ef000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0
mprotect(0x607000, 4096, PROT_READ)     = 0
mprotect(0x7f99a5c25000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0
munmap(0x7f99a5ca3000, 24701)           = 0
brk(NULL)                               = 0x1357000
brk(0x1378000)                          = 0x1378000
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1668976, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1668976, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f99a5a8d000
close(3)                                = 0
getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)            = 20
fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0660, st_rdev=makedev(4, 3), ...}) = 0
ioctl(1, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
write(1, "0\n", 20
)                      = 2
close(1)                                = 0
close(2)                                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?
+++ exited with 0 +++

Required packages and commands to install
None, /usr/bin/nice is from coreutils.

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iltep64 · 2017-03-31T12:13:37Z

On closer inspection, nice is calling setpriority with the user-provided value of 5. Glibc is supposed to handle the translation of userland nice values to kernel nice values (e.g. 5 -> 15, -5 -> 25), according to https://linux.die.net/man/2/setpriority.

On older builds, non privileged users could execute nice -n -5 <command>, which should fail with EACCES, ~~thus the new builds actually are the correct ones in implementing the syscall behavior. However, somehow nice or glibc is not doing the conversion.~~

Testing on a linux box, strace gives

$ strace nice -n 5 nice
<snip>
getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)            = 20
setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, 5)         = 0
<snip>
$ strace nice -n -5 nice
<snip>
getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0)            = 20
setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -5)        = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
<snip>

iltep64 · 2017-03-31T12:21:18Z

Problem still persists on latest libc 2.23.

pefoley2 · 2017-04-12T07:15:08Z

This also causes the python os.nice() function to return "Operation not permitted".

tnguyen14 · 2017-05-11T04:19:44Z

I see a bunch of these errors

nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied

every time I use linuxbrew and run brew install ...

farmerbean · 2017-07-16T11:05:48Z

@tnguyen14 - Yes, same issue here (wsl16)

ChickenFur · 2017-08-11T05:27:43Z

same issue here

swun90 · 2017-10-16T05:54:06Z

I am using zsh and oh-my-zsh, and had the same issue before.
Add upsetopt BG_LINE to ~/.zshrc to fix the issue.

farmerbean · 2017-10-16T07:16:13Z

@swun90 when I source ~/.zshrc it says 'command not found' (upsetopt).

I note I already have 'unsetopt BG_NICE' on the last line, but still getting the issue.

when I add 'unsetopt BG_LINE' I get 'no such option BG_LINE'

iegik · 2018-01-26T08:27:51Z

Thanks @swun90, I`m also use oh-my-zsh. Your solution fix this annoying message,
but only with small correction:

nice(5) failed: operation not permitted

Add unsetopt BG_LINE to ~/.zshrc to fix the issue.

@farmerbean try unsetopt BG_NICE

farmerbean · 2018-01-26T10:44:09Z

Thanks @iegik - in there already, but persists.

bouvyd · 2018-03-22T17:17:27Z

Still happening on 16299 (when using the os.nice(val) python call on python 3.5+) using the basic bash.

BelfordZ · 2018-04-20T11:32:42Z

+1 to being rekd by this

phifa · 2018-08-07T12:39:17Z

same over here.

jsonMartin · 2018-08-07T17:27:59Z

Also having this issue. Adding upsetopt BG_LINE to zshrc fixed it as well for now, but looking forward to native fix.

sjackman · 2018-08-07T17:30:52Z

This issue also affects Linuxbrew. See Linuxbrew/brew#695

benhillis · 2018-08-07T18:25:49Z

Looks like we're being too strict about checking the permissions for the setpriority syscall when who = 0. I'll fix this.

benhillis · 2018-08-14T19:14:17Z

Fixed in 17738.

sjackman · 2018-08-14T19:33:44Z

Woohoo! Thanks, Ben!

WaqqasI · 2018-11-11T14:43:15Z

I still seem to be getting this issue on a updated version of wsl
It does however work with sudo, which is unusual

Does not work with WSL: https://paste.yandex-team.ru/687055 It's known issue microsoft/WSL#1838 issue:https://st.yandex-team.ru/DEVTOOLS-4896 ref:10223a059c4b3467c1dad27c9dece5cb794a1fc5

sjackman · 2019-07-17T22:04:04Z

@benhillis Some people are reporting that they're still seeing this issue. Are there particular instructions that the user needs to follow to get this fix?

benhillis · 2019-07-17T22:11:02Z

@sjackman - What Windows build are they running?

sjackman · 2019-07-17T22:13:47Z

@EshChn @LightningsFury Are you still seeing this issue with nice: cannot set niceness: permission denied? What Windows build are you running?

shewlian · 2019-08-04T03:33:12Z

Hi, folks.
I'm still seeing this issue on Windows 10, Version 1803, Build 17134.
I'll be upgrading to a Windows Insider version and check if the issue persists.

craigloewen-msft · 2019-08-07T20:16:22Z

@juliandres this issue is marked as fixed in build 17738. So make sure to upgrade to that version or higher!

shewlian · 2019-08-08T07:07:12Z

@mscraigloewen I've just upgraded to Version 1903, Build 18362. The issue seems to be gone. Thank you. :)

iltep64 changed the title ~~setpriority syscall fails with EACCES~~ nice fails with EACCES/Permission denied Mar 31, 2017

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Fixed the _z_precmd:1: nice(5) failed: operation not permitted error rupa/z#200

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