Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Crash Opening Preferences under Fedora Core 4 AMD64

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Duigou wrote:
> With current subversion src it's not possible to open prefs for unknown 
> reasons. Enclosed is the gdb backtrace.
>
> I've tried it with both my normal prefs and with no pre-existing 
> '.ethereal' directory.
>
> Mike
>
> #0  0x000000300022f280 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0000003000230750 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2  0x0000003000b2d1a3 in g_logv () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #3  0x0000003000b2d226 in g_log () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #4  0x0000003000b2d294 in g_assert_warning () from 
> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #5  0x00002aaaab2e24bd in emem_create_chunk (free_list=Variable 
> "free_list" is not available.
> ) at emem.c:239
> #6  0x00002aaaab2e2702 in ep_alloc (size=136) at emem.c:277
> #7  0x00002aaaab2f67bb in range_convert_range (range=0x771b00) at 
> range.c:306
> #8  0x0000000000443d52 in pref_show (pref=0x771bd0, user_data=Variable 
> "user_data" is not available.
> ) at prefs_dlg.c:211
> #9  0x00002aaaab2e8168 in prefs_pref_foreach (module=Variable "module" 
> is not available.
> ) at prefs.c:651
> #10 0x0000000000444137 in module_prefs_show (module=0x771b40, 
> user_data=Variable "user_data" is not available.
> ) at prefs_dlg.c:329
> #11 0x00002aaaab2e7d95 in prefs_module_list_foreach 
> (module_list=Variable "module_list" is not available.
> ) at prefs.c:349
> #12 0x0000000000444004 in module_prefs_show (module=0x73b600, 
> user_data=Variable "user_data" is not available.
> ) at prefs_dlg.c:306
> #13 0x00002aaaab2e7d95 in prefs_module_list_foreach 
> (module_list=Variable "module_list" is not available.
> ) at prefs.c:349
> #14 0x0000000000444926 in prefs_cb (w=Variable "w" is not available.

Looks like there's a bug open for this:

http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=784