Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems with ethereal-0.8.20 on Solaris-8

[aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew C. Feren)]

Andy Steingruebl <asteingruebl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:09:36PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > I'm getting a coredump when running it.  Run with no command line, or
> > > with arguments, pretty much get the same thing...
> > 
> > I'm not:
> > 
> > 	{hostname>$ uname -a
> > 	SunOS {hostname} 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
> > 
> > Perhaps there's something broken about your GTK+ installation.  (I don't
> > know what it would be, or how to track it down.)
> 
> I had grabbed the gtk+-1.2.8 build from sunfreeware.  I got errors with
> ethereal-0.8.20 when buiolt against this version of gtk+.  I grabbed a
> newer build from sunfreeware, 1.2.10, and its working now.
> 
> Not sure what the problem was.  Might have been a bad compile of gtk+,
> though I was using it successfully for other things.
> 
> I've got everything working now. Thanks.  I'd have mailed sooner but
> wanted to reply to my original message.

FWIW I have seen the same problem with the sunfreeware gtk+-1.2.8
build.  I use the the gtk that is bundled with Sun's Gnome
distribution or the version that installs off the supplemental
software CD that comes with the Solaris media kit.

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-Andrew Feren
 Cetacean Networks, Inc.
 Portsmouth, NH