Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] squares
From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:31:38 -0400
János Löbb wrote:
On May 25, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

János Löbb wrote:
On May 25, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

János Löbb wrote:
On May 25, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

János Löbb wrote:
On May 25, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

János Löbb wrote:
Hi,

I downloaded the 1.3.t Development Release dmg, but when I launch it, all text is replaced with squares.   I looked the FAQs but see nothing there.  My machine is an Intel Mac with 4 GB memory the OS is OS X 10.6.3.  I did not have this problem with 1.2.6 or with 1.2.8.

Any good hint ?
What SVN version did you pick up? According to bug 4697 (which had the same complaint) this should be fixed in revisions 32751 or later.
I used the dmg from the Downloads section from www.wireshark.org.  It is 1.3.5.  Sorry for the mistype above.
The fix for that bug just missed 1.3.5 . You'll need to either use an buildbot build:

http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/

or manually apply the fix from bug 4697 (basically: edit $HOME/.wireshark-etc/pangorc and remove the quotes from the ModuleFiles and AliasFiles lines).
There are no quotes there:
bml0028:.wireshark-etc janos$ cat pangorc
[Pango]
ModuleFiles=${HOME}/.wireshark-etc/pango.modules
[PangoX]
AliasFiles=${HOME}/.wireshark-etc/pangox.aliases
Oh, you probably need to change "${HOME}" to whatever your home directory is (probably "/Users/yourname/")--without the quotes, of course.
I still do not see quotes:

bml0028:~ janos$ cd $HOME
bml0028:~ janos$ pwd
/Users/janos
bml0028:~ janos$ cat .wireshark-etc/pangorc [Pango]
ModuleFiles=/Users/janos/.wireshark-etc/pango.modules
[PangoX]
AliasFiles=/Users/janos/.wireshark-etc/pangox.aliases
Did you modify /Applications/Wireshark/Contents/Resources/etc/pango/pangorc as Kevin suggested?

(In other words: does the above setting remain after starting Wireshark?)

I did not  modify.  I checked, it is with the @HOME there too, WITHOUT the quotes.  Something else is playing additionally,.. thinking me.

Sorry, I meant that Kevin pointed out that you must also modify this file because it will be copied to ~/.wireshark-etc/pangorc every time you start Wireshark. So unless you also modify that version of the file so that it looks like what your ~/.wireshark-etc/pangorc currently looks like (the last display of it above), you'll still see the problem.