diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index da7929b0..28e645cc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ What's new in version 0.8.1
   (thanks to Ian Page Hands)
 * BUGFIX: Fix collection of IO stats in multithreaded processes
   (thanks to Gerhard Heift)
+* Remove assertion that fails on hardened kernels
+  (thanks to Wolfram Schlich for the report)
 
 What's new in version 0.8
 
diff --git a/ProcessList.c b/ProcessList.c
index 82ff6efb..839660dc 100644
--- a/ProcessList.c
+++ b/ProcessList.c
@@ -371,7 +371,9 @@ void ProcessList_sort(ProcessList* this) {
       // Take PID 1 as root and add to the new listing
       int vsize = Vector_size(this->processes);
       Process* init = (Process*) (Vector_take(this->processes, 0));
-      assert(init->pid == 1);
+      // This assertion crashes on hardened kernels.
+      // I wonder how well tree view works on those systems.
+      // assert(init->pid == 1);
       init->indent = 0;
       Vector_add(this->processes2, init);
       // Recursively empty list