Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark bug on startup

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Bjork wrote:
> When  I try to run Wireshark 1.2.5 with WinCap 4.1.1 (?, the latest as  
> of today)  I get just to the startup initializing screen.  It says
>
> "Initializing dissectors"
>
> then it hangs and is not salvageable even using end task in the task  
> manager.
>
> I'm running Windows 2000 SP4 on an instance of a virtual machine using  
> the latest copy of VirtualBox (3.1.2) from Sun, on a Mac mini with an  
> intel core 2 duo processor.
>
> Any ideas?

Sounds a lot like:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3270