Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: ASN1.DLL linked against GTK2 forces crash. was: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New pre-release for Win32 us

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:

> frogzoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:
>
> I was wondering how it could be that GTK 1.3 crashes with GTK-Wimp. 
> GTK-Wimp is an extension for GTK2. GTK1 doesn't even load it!!
> So I installed GTK1 version with GTK-Wimp and at least this time, I 
> can reproduce the crash.
> The debugger shows that it crashes when loading asn1.dll.
> I am not surprised that we finally have a conflict with it as it is 
> linked against GTK2!

Well, as you correctly noticed, it's not a good idea to have GTK 
dependencies in plugins at all, exactly for the reasons you described.

> The crash already happens in libglib-2.0-0.dll. I believe that most 
> people reporting crashes with ethereal crashing in module 
> libglib-2.0-0.dll have this conflict.
>
> There are a lot of workarounds, but there is only one solution:
> Remove GTK depedency from the asn1 plugin.

Yes!

> Short term workaround:
> Remove asn1.dll in the plugins directory.
> When you start Ethereal after that, you will probably get a DOS box 
> with some warnings about preferences of the asn1 dissector. Just go to 
> Edit->Prefences and click on the save button and the DOS-box won't 
> appear the next time.
>
> Workaround for next release:
> Installer shouldn't install asn1.dll with GTK1 version of ethereal.

And even this is only a workaround.

> However, it shouldn't be possible to select GTK-Wimp together with 
> GTK1. GTK1 doesn't use it.

I have this on my todo list for quite a while.

> I will prepare patches for the nsis installer.
Yes please :-)

Regards, ULFL