Dear all,
I wonder if anyone has some advice. I and my colleagues run Ethereal on a
number of different Windows 9x platforms with the GTK libraries (downloaded
from the Ethereal site). Ethereal only stays around for a couple of captures
before dying. There is no consistent behaviour on when it fails: sometimes
paging down a decode; sometimes just clicking on a line of decode; sometimes
resizing a window; sometimes just as it's about display the decode
information. The consistent theme is that it stays around for only a few
minutes before requiring a restart. The symptoms are either: a) an error
message pops up about the application behaving illegally or b) a dos-box
appears referring to font problems (the latter happening far-less frequently
than the former). The behaviour has been consistent for all versions of
Ethereal and GTK.
It strikes me that this is a GTK library problem. To avoid clashes I never
install the dlls into windows/system, but keep them in the same directory as
the current version of Ethereal.
I've read somewhere about screen resolutions, but can't find the reference
now. I've tried changing Ethereal's settings to no avail. Is there a known
bug with certain font installations or screen set-ups? Is there a
work-around?
Please let me know if you've encountered similar problems and resolved them.
Thanks
Andy Leigh
Senior Planning Engineer, Strategic Network Developments, New Technology
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