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Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] segmentation fault

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From: root <guether@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:28:24 +0100
Hi all,

I produced a segmentation fault with ethereal  on a multiprocesor
system.

0) hardware:
    asus dual pentium III (550 MHz) board with 512 MB RAM.
1) operating system
    Linux 2.2.12-20 on RedHat 6.1
2) gtk version
    1.2.5
3) ethereal version
    ethereal 0.7.9, with GTK+ 1.2.6, with libpcap 0.4, with libz 1.1.3,
without SNMP
4) I simply started ethereal from the command prompt
    "ethereal"
    after that I did a capture->start with:
        interface: eth0
        count: 0 (infinite)
        filter:
        file:
        capture length: 65535
        Update list of packets in real time: (enabled)
        Enable name resolution: (enabled)
    After that I did a tools->summary .... and produced a segmentation
fault.


    .. and here is the stack:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
#0  0x806b6af in summary_prep_cb ()
#1  0x400a5712 in gtk_item_factory_callback_marshal () from
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#2  0x400b4b4d in gtk_marshal_NONE__NONE () from
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#3  0x400e1fdd in gtk_handlers_run () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#4  0x400e1422 in gtk_signal_real_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#5  0x400df575 in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#6  0x401148c8 in gtk_widget_activate () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#7  0x400bc13b in gtk_menu_shell_activate_item () from
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#8  0x400bb4bb in gtk_menu_shell_button_release () from
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#9  0x400b4719 in gtk_marshal_BOOL__POINTER () from
/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#10 0x400e145b in gtk_signal_real_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#11 0x400df575 in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#12 0x4011477c in gtk_widget_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#13 0x400b4672 in gtk_propagate_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#14 0x400b38ca in gtk_main_do_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#15 0x4015e00b in gdk_event_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0
#16 0x4018bbe6 in g_main_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#17 0x4018c1a1 in g_main_iterate () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#18 0x4018c341 in g_main_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0
#19 0x400b3209 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0
#20 0x80cf25c in main ()
#21 0x402861eb in __libc_start_main (main=0x80ce000 <main>, argc=1,
argv=0xbffffd44,
    init=0x8058ad8 <_init>, fini=0x80de71c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000a610
<_dl_fini>,
    stack_end=0xbffffd3c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:90
----------------------------------------------------------------------

best regards
Jens