Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bug in file_dlg.c?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Michael Tuexen wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> when I start ethereal and try to open a file the application
> crashes on Mac OS X.
>
> The reason is that get_basename is called with a NULL pointer.

I think you mean *returns* a NULL pointer.

> This comes from file_open_entry_changed, where the code
>
>     /* get the filename */
> #if (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == 2 && GTK_MINOR_VERSION >= 4) || 
> GTK_MAJOR_VERSION > 2
>     cf_name = gtk_file_chooser_get_filename(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(file_sel));
>     printf("cf_name = %u.\n", (unsigned int) cf_name); /* changed by 
> me */
> #else
>     cf_name = 
> gtk_file_selection_get_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(file_sel));
> #endif
>
> prints
> cf_name = 0.
> and after that ethereal dies.
>
> [PowerMac:~/Documents/ethereal] tuexen% ./ethereal -v
> ethereal 0.10.4 (CVS 20040620164627)
> Compiled with GTK+ 2.4.1, with GLib 2.4.1, with libpcap 0.8, with libz 
> 1.1.4,
> with libpcre 4.1, without UCD-SNMP or Net-SNMP, without ADNS.
>
> Running with libpcap version 0.8 on Darwin 7.4.0.

Thanks for pointing me to the right direction :-)))

I've checked in a fix for this, please try again :-)

I thought this was a problem with some update I've done on my system 
with the Gimp.

Regards, ULFL