Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] 10.0 dumps core on particular packet: XP and FreeBSD 4.9

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:28:07 -0800

On Dec 18, 2003, at 10:26 AM, McMahon, Chris wrote:


	The core dump message in FreeBSD is: "** ERROR **: file proto.c:
line 446 (proto_registrar_get_nth: assertion failed: (hfindex >=0 && (guint) 
hfindex < gpa_hfinfo -> len)"
There should be a file "ethereal.core" somewhere after a FreeBSD Ethereal crash (in the current directory if you started it from the command line, and probably in your home directory if you started it from a GUI). If so, try running GDB on the Ethereal binary and the core dump, and running the command "backtrace"; send us the output from that command.
(If you can send us the offending capture, that'd be even better. If it crashes after you stop a capture, the capture file will, on FreeBSD, probably be in "/var/tmp" and, on Windows XP, probably be either in C:\TEMP or in some directory under your "Documents and Settings" directory; it'll have a name beginning with "ether".)