Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal on Linux

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:56:14 -0700
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:45:15AM +0100, Robert Fulton wrote:
> Can anybody tell me / help me work out what went wrong.

If the capture was running in "Update list of packets in real time"
mode, the problem is probably that the capture was too big for Ethereal
to handle - currently, the widget it uses to display the list of packets
consumes a *lot* of memory for large capture files; that may change in
the future.

If the capture was *not* running that mode, there might be a memory
leak.  Try doing

	gdb ethereal core

(with "ethereal" possibly replaced by the full pathname of the Ethereal
binary, although GDB appears to search your path for the binary to
debug), and then run the "backtrace" command and mail us the result of
that command.