Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Random Crashes - No Debug Info

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From: Kevin der Kinderen <kevin@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 4 Dec 2001 14:51:22 -0800
I'm using RH7.2 and trying to troubleshoot a problem I'm having running Ethereal. I'm getting the same symptoms using both the 0.8.18-9 rpm that came with RH7.2 and the compiled source 0.8.20 so I think Ethereal is the victim and not the problem. The real problem I have is I can't get any kind of error messages - just Segmentation fault.

Ethereal seems to run just fine, captures packets great. But at random times it just goes away. It never runs for more than 5 minutes and sometimes only a few seconds.

It crashes most often when I stop capturing but it's not the only time.

Could someone give me a clue as to how to troubleshoot this? Is there a debug mode I can turn on? I'm starting it from the command line in hopes of getting some clue. The syslog only shows that the interface went in and out of promiscuous mode. I just noticed with the newest version there's also a syslog entry:

Dec  4 17:30:28 vauus709 kernel: ethereal uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)

Any help appreciated.

Kevin

Kevin der Kinderen