Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] wireshark 0.99.7 crash on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Fink wrote:

> I'm trying to rebuild wireshark for MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) with the new 
> X11 engine (instead of the old XFree86, Leopard uses XFree.org's 
> implementation if I'm not mistaken).

X.org rather than XFree.org, but, yes, Leopard's X server is X.org-based 
rather than XFree86-based.

> However I'm running into crashes 
> saying:
>
> intelix:sources afink$ wireshark --sync
> The program 'wireshark' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>   (Details: serial 57553 error_code 8 request_code 152 minor_code 4)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

X server bug.  See

	http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1953

for details and, at the end, for information on where to get a fixed X 
server.

(Summary, for X geeks: the server temporarily set the depth of a 
drawable for some purpose and, in some error cases, failed to restore it 
to the correct value when done.)