Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal - Problem

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:14:52 +0200
"Straessle, Marc" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have a problem with ethereal. The details follows as described in your
> readme-file.
> 
> 1. OS:          SUNOS 5.8
> 2. GTK+:        1.2.6
> 3. ethereal:    ethereal 0.8.4, with GTK+ 1.2.6, with libcap 0.4, with libz
> 1.1.3, without SNMP
> 4. I started with "/usr/local/bin/ethereal &"
> Then I pushed Ctrl+K and startet the capture with OK.
> When I "stop" the capture the program dies with "Bus Error - core dumped".


And from the README:

__
If Ethereal died on you with a 'segmentation violation', you can help the
developers a lot if you have a debugger installed. A stack trace can be
obtained by using your debugger ('gdb' in this example), the ethereal binary,
and the resulting core file. Here's an example of how to use the gdb
command 'backtrace' to do so.

$ gdb ethereal core
(gdb) backtrace
..... prints the stack trace
(gdb) quit
$
__

In your case, it is "Bus Error" not "segmentation violation" but a core
file is also generated. So please give us a stack trace ... and if you
still have it, the capture file which should be etherXXX??? in /tmp/ ...


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