Running Scalene with elevated privileges does not produce profiler results.

[MrDrDoom]

Hello,

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a HardKernel ODroid M1 board, and I am using the terminal to launch Scalene/my application.

The application I am trying to profile needs elevated access in order to open and maintain serial connection as well as write to logging files. If I run the command sudo scalene main.py, my app starts up and operates almost as intended but does not open up my browser to show the profiling results. If I run the command scalene main.py, the app fails to start up as it needs elevated access for the components I mentioned before but it does launch my browser and offers the little it was able to profile.

Is there a way to run Scalene with elevated privilege that I missed in the documentation?

Thank you in advance for any help.

[emeryberger]

So I assume you are running your program normally with sudo python3 main.py, correct?

I installed Scalene as root (not recommended), but it worked. You might try this, which I verified works for me on Ubuntu.

sudo bash -c "scalene --cli ./main.py"