Linux on Apple ARM - psutil.net_if_stats() - OSError: [Errno 25] Inappropriate ioctl for device (originated from ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL))

[damies13]

Summary

• OS: Linux (debian docker container based on python:3.13.9-slim)
• Architecture: Apple ARM M4 (Docker running on Apple ARM M4 chip)
• Psutil version: 7.1.3
• Python version: python:3.13.9
• Type: core? (psutil.net_if_stats())

Description

My application uses psutil to get network card stats, I got a report from a user that when running in a docker container on a Mac that uses Apple ARM CPU they get the error OSError: [Errno 25] Inappropriate ioctl for device (originated from ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL)) when my code calls psutil.net_if_stats()

User has confirmed running the same docker container on other hardware (e.g. windows machine with intel cpu) does not produce this error.

I've provided the stack trace that I was given below:

<hostname>  | Exception in thread Thread-452 (updatenetpct):
<hostname>  | Traceback (most recent call last):
<hostname>  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 1043, in _bootstrap_inner
<hostname>  |     self.run()
<hostname>  |     ~~~~~~~~^^
<hostname>  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/threading.py", line 994, in run
<hostname>  |     self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
<hostname>  |     ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<hostname>  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/rfswarm_agent/rfswarm_agent.py", line 667, in updatenetpct
<hostname>  |     nicstats = psutil.net_if_stats()
<hostname>  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/psutil/__init__.py", line 2285, in net_if_stats
<hostname>  |     return _psplatform.net_if_stats()
<hostname>  |            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
<hostname>  |   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/psutil/_pslinux.py", line 1044, in net_if_stats
<hostname>  |     duplex, speed = cext.net_if_duplex_speed(name)
<hostname>  |                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
<hostname>  | OSError: [Errno 25] Inappropriate ioctl for device (originated from ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL))