Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pcap-ng support: warning message w

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Bill Meier schrieb:
> FWIW: 
>
> I note that when Wireshare opens a VMS sample capture file from
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures, the following warning messages
> appear on the console:
>
> 15:50:27          Warn pcapng_read_block: Unknown block_type: 0xa200a20 (block
> i
> gnored)
> 15:50:27          Warn pcapng_read_block: couldn't read second block length
> 15:50:27          Warn pcapng_open_new: couldn't read first SHB
>
> Is this just debug output which eventually goes away ?
>   
Yes, these were debug messages - I've just checked in a fix, shouldn't 
appear now.

So, if anyone is going to debug pcapng, it's a good idea to switch on 
debug messages first ...
> This doesn't happen for all types of capture files presumably because of the
> order in which the various capture file types are tried ....
>   
Exact.

Regards, ULFL