Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] BUGS ?

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 12:32:35 -0500 (CDT)
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> This has happened during the last week
> on a RH7.1 box, after checking out cvs and running autogen
> autogen will die after complaining that it did not find snmp.h
> I do not have ucd-snmp installed since i care very little about snmp.
> Previsoulsy it just configured my build without snmp, now autogen dies.
> 
> running ./autogen.sh --without-ucdsnmp   works. I did not need to specify
> this flag
> explicitely before. No drama, but inconvenient.

This is my fault.  I set the default behavior for "want_ucdsnmp" in
configure.in to "yes" instead of "ifpresent".  It's been fixed.


> starting ethereal with     ./ethereal -n -r <random-capture>.cap
> opening preferences, changing a boolean prefs value, such as the one in
> protocols/AH, or one of the NFS ones
> and then clicking APPLY will make ethereal dump core.
> 
> starting ethereal without loading any captures, changing the preference
> setting, APPLY and SAVE works.
> If I then exit ethereal and restart it with  ./ethereal -n -r
> <random-capture>.cap  it works with the changed
> prefs value.
> 
> so:
> If I change a prefs value while i have a capture loaded, my ethereal will
> coredump when i click APPLY.

This doesn't happen on my system.  Can you run "make distclean" and
rebuild Ethereal from scratch, and see if the behavior is still present?