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Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] segmentation fault

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:16:49 -0800
> 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.

Had it displayed any packets yet?

There's a bug where the summary code assumes there's at least one packet
in the capture file; I'll look at fixing that one.