Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark runtime messages we don't want to see

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:08:59PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ERROR: Cannot connect to ADB: Connection refused
> > INFO: Please check that adb daemon is running.
> > 
> > Do not know about the others, but 
> > "ERROR: Cannot connect to ADB: Connection refused
> > INFO: Please check that adb daemon is running."
> > 
> > is the new androiddump extcap utility, and I think it should be ok, that this message is printed, as it is an external tool, not Wireshark itself.
> 
> Is it run whenever you start Wireshark, even if you don't have any Android development tools installed?

Correct. I don't have any Android development environment installed and it appears all
the time.

> If not, is it still run even if you don't happen to be debugging an Android device at the time?
> 
> It should perhaps try to distinguish, if possible, between "failure to connect to ADB when you're actually debugging an Android device" and "failure to connect to ADB because {you're not using any Android development tools right now, you don't even have Android development tools installed, you don't have any Android devices on which to develop, etc.}".

Ciao
     Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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