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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] tethereal segfaults when using ring buffer

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 23:15:33 -0800
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:57:45AM +0100, Terje Krogdahl wrote:
> tethereal segfaults when I try to use a timed ring buffer, ie:
> 
> tethereal -a filesize:1000000 -b 10:60 -i eth0 -w ring.cap
> 
> The crash occurs just after the second file  is opened:

Can you get a stack trace using gdb?  There is a bug in 0.10.2 with ring
buffers in Tethereal, which can cause a crash - this might be the same
bug, which has been fixed in the current CVS version.