Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] linux compile problem

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> It gets farther, and dies somewhere else.

So it succeeded in compiling "libpcap.c" when you tried again?

This sounds suspiciously like either a hardware problem, a kernel
problem, or maybe a "running out of swap space" problem, as per the page
Gerald mentioned (if it's a "running out of swap space" problem, some
programmer probably needs to be gently encouraged to check the result of
"malloc()" for NULL - and preferably report "sorry, you're out of
virtual memory" or "sorry, you're probably out of swap space" or
something such as that - rather than driving on and dereferencing the
null pointer).

I suspect that "kernel problem" is less likely than "hardware problem"
or "out of swap space".

> but I wish I didn't have to babysit it ... 

I'd check what the sig11 page has to say, and try some of the tests it
suggests.