Bug#530423: Lowering nice value (increasing priority) does not work and crashes gnome-system-monitor!

[Deniz Akcal]

Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 2.24.4-1
Severity: normal

The same problem exists in Lenny but since Debian stable only receives 
critical bug updates then I'd at least file this for Squeeze. Lowering 
the nice value (increasing the priority) has absolutely no effect and 
crashes gnome-system-monitor while increasing the nice value (lowering 
the priority) does not crash gnome-system-monitor and it also works!

Lowering and increasing the nice value both work and do not crash when 
gnome-system-monitor is run as root!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.26.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                       2.9-4        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.6-2+b1   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.4.0-5    GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.26.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.0-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a          2.20.0-1     C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.16.1-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a           1:2.16.0-2   C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared 
ii  libgtop2-7                  2.24.3-1     gtop system monitoring library
ii  librsvg2-2                  2.22.3-2     SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a          2.0.18-2     type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                  4.4.0-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwnck22                   2.24.2-2     Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libxml2                     2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  rarian-compat [scrollkeeper 0.8.1-2      Rarian is a documentation meta-dat

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.2-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libgksu2-0                    2.0.10-1   library providing su and sudo func

gnome-system-monitor suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information