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Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal crashes by trying to edit preferences

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From: "Hirsch, Christian" <Christian.Hirsch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:37:41 +0100
Hello Ethereal-Community,

everytime I try to chance the preferences --> Capture --> Interfaces --> Edit...
Ethereal crashes with the message:
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x080c9252 ***

Enclosed you'll find the backtrace.

Thanx for help

Christian


Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread -1208047936 (LWP 10377)]
0x0074a7a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x0074a7a2 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #1  0x022a7955 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #2  0x022a9319 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #3  0x022daf9a in __libc_message () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #4  0x022e1528 in _int_free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5  0x022e1afa in free () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #6  0x004d1d81 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #7  0x08092e71 in ifopts_options_free (text=0x23a7800) at 
capture_prefs.c:685
#8  0x08093bfd in ifopts_edit_cb (w=0xa0a6500, data=0x0) at 
capture_prefs.c:626
#9  0x004823ae in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from 
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0x0046a347 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00480ae1 in g_signal_has_handler_pending () from 
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00481cbc in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #13 0x00481f5a in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #14 0x001882a4 in gtk_button_clicked () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #15 0x00189d24 in gtk_button_get_alignment () from 
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0x004823ae in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from 
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#17 0x0046a6b2 in g_cclosure_new_swap () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #18 0x0046a347 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #19 0x00480432 in g_signal_has_handler_pending () from 
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#20 0x00481cbc in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #21 0x00481f5a in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #22 0x001881ec in gtk_button_released () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #23 0x00189297 in gtk_button_set_relief () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #24 0x00240757 in gtk_marshal_VOID__UINT_STRING () from 
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#25 0x0046a6b2 in g_cclosure_new_swap () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #26 0x0046a347 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #27 0x00480646 in g_signal_has_handler_pending () from 
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#28 0x00481913 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #29 0x00481f5a in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #30 0x00334545 in gtk_widget_activate () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #31 0x0023ea1b in gtk_propagate_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #32 0x0023ed20 in gtk_main_do_event () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #33 0x078ac0a2 in gdk_event_get_graphics_expose () from 
/usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
#34 0x004cb7bb in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #35 0x004cd242 in g_main_context_acquire () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #36 0x004cd4ef in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #37 0x0023e07e in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #38 0x080797af in main (argc=0, argv=0xbfee4d28) at main.c:2586