Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] ethereal locks up when I stop a capture

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From: Mike Rambo <mrambo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:23:21 -0400
Yesterday I retrieved sources for Ethereal (0.8.17) and libpcap (0.6.2)
which I compiled and installed on a RedHat 6.2 system (PII-300 384MB
ram). In two tests yesterday afternoon just prior to leaving work,
ethereal froze when I clicked stop on one of the two tests. Not having
more time to put in yesterday, I nevertheless left it running all night
last night because we've been having unusual traffic overnight on one of
our networks. This morning I came in, clicked stop, and ethereal froze.

Is there anything known that will cause this?

Is there anything I can do to preserve the data captured last night or
is it already toast?

I had set ethereal up to log the capture to a file in my home directory
but the name I gave does not exist there. Might there be a temp file
somewhere I could salvage?

Thanks.


-- 
Mike Rambo
Lansing School District
mrambo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx