Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Probable serious bug in ethereal 0.7.8 and 0.7.9 under Linux

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:59:21PM +0100, Aleksander Adamowski wrote:
> I think i've stumbled upon a serious bug in ethereal versions 0.7.8 and 0.7.9
> (0.7.7 works perfectly all right).
> 
> Ethereal freezes when capturing packets, and I'm almost sure that it's not the
> problem you described (the one that occurs under Linux when there's low LAN
> traffic) - first of all, Ethereal 0.7.7 works perfect, and then our local
> network is quite loaded with traffic all the time, so it shouldn't be the
> problem with libpcap for Linux.
> 
> The freezing I'm talking about occurs in the following way:
> 1. I run Ethereal from x terminal (safer)
> 2. So far so good... I go to "capture" -> "start..."
> 3. I press "OK"
> 4. the "Ethereal: Capture/Playback" window appears, but apart from the title
> bar (which displays the "Ethereal: Capture/Playback" string) the window is empty
> (no widgets are visible, absolutely nothing).
> 5. Ethereal is dead. Doesn't respond to clicking any of the close window
> buttons (Capture window nor Main window). No errors are displayed on the
> console, and it responds properly to CTRL-C combo, exiting properly though.
> 
> When setting up capture options, I usually uncheck "Enable name resolution"
> (because name resolution slowed me down in previous working versions of
> Ethereal) and set capture length to something around 5000 (because my eth0's MTU

Does this happen every time you use this Ethereal binary, or
only some times? Do you have the "Update lists of packets in real time"
checked or unchecked?

--gilbert