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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] core dump on starting wireshark (latest SVN update 39266?)

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:59:15 -0400
Kaul wrote:
(gdb) bt
#0 0x000000316b8482a0 in g_markup_escape_text () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #1 0x00000000004629b6 in welcome_filename_link_new (menu_item=0x1a04d30, label=read_sleb128: Corrupted DWARF expression.
) at main_welcome.c:626
#2 main_welcome_add_recent_capture_file (widget_cf_name=0x185e900 "/home/ykaul/wireshark/\212\340\001", menu_item=0x1a04d30) at main_welcome.c:706 #3 0x00000000004550c4 in add_recent_items (merge_id=5, ui_manager=0x17abb20) at main_menubar.c:3927 #4 0x00000000004575a4 in add_menu_recent_capture_file (cf_name=<optimized out>) at main_menubar.c:4122 #5 0x000000000047c575 in read_set_recent_pair_dynamic (key=<optimized out>, value=0x1a00f50 "\212\340\001", private_data=<optimized out>, return_range_errors=<optimized out>)
    at recent.c:740
#6 0x00007ffff5732a96 in read_prefs_file (pf_path=0x880b80 "/home/ykaul/.wireshark/recent_common", pf=0x1a05800, pref_set_pair_fct=0x47c500 <read_set_recent_pair_dynamic>,
    private_data=0x0) at prefs.c:1531
#7 0x000000000047e12e in recent_read_dynamic (rf_path_return=0x7fffffffe078, rf_errno_return=0x7fffffffe0b4) at recent.c:945
#8  0x000000000042d7e4 in main (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe1e0) at main.c:2875

It worked before the massive updates of last night (which I'm not sure unrelated). It's a bit more difficult to dissect in SVN, so hopefully someone has a clue what went wrong.

Not sure if this is related: I had a core dump last night while *writing* the recent file. A make clean/all fixed it.