Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] bug in 0.10.4

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:19:42PM -0600, Richard A Painter wrote:
> on win98 first edition i get the following error message dialog at the start of 
> the capture:
> 
> The file "D:\tmp/etherXXXXa07251" could not be opened: Uncompression error: 
> buffer error.
> 
> this happens every time AND althouth the capture packet counts are updating 
> none are displaying and do not display after stopping the capture.

Is that file still in D:\tmp\etherXXXXa07251 (or whatever the file name
is)?

If so, what happens if you start Ethereal and then tell it to open that
file?

> this *appears* to have an incorrect folder separator character "/" for
> windows.

Incorrect, but it still works.  That's not related to the problem you're
seeing.  I've checked in a change that should make it use "\" on
Windows.

> any ideas on how to get this fixed?

No, as I have no idea what's causing it, and haven't seen it myself.  We
might have to get a copy of the file in order to figure out why zlib
thought it was a compressed file.