I've reproduced this bug on x86_64 machine as well. Running ./ethereal -
i any -kS segfaults, backtrace on nonoptimized ethereal shows
(gdb) bt
#0 0x000000354746f532 in strcmp () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000041e9ec in get_interface_descriptive_name (if_name=0x1
<Address 0x1 out of bounds>) at capture_ui_utils.c:144
#2 0x000000000043e1dc in main_cf_callback (event=13594976,
data=0x600160, user_data=0xcf6f70) at main.c:1372
#3 0x00000000004291fc in cf_callback_remove (func=0x400610340) at
file.c:165
#4 0x0000000000429c6a in cf_continue_tail (cf=0x600160, to_read=0,
err=0x100018f40) at file.c:528
#5 0x0000000000425986 in sync_pipe_do_capture (capture_opts=0x610340,
is_tempfile=1) at capture_sync.c:516
#6 0x000000000042468d in capture_read (capture_opts=0x100aa2b60,
is_tempfile=55, drops_known=177306599, drops=0)
at capture.c:201
#7 0x00000000004401a5 in main (argc=0, argv=0x7fbffff938) at
main.c:2116
Looking into capture_ui_utils.c I really don't know why it started to
fail while AFAIK there weren't any changes recently :(
Radek
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 22:31 +0100, Pierre JUHEN wrote:
> Still looking for the bug.
>
> Facts :
>
> Ethereal 0.10.9 recompiled in the same environment in x86_64 mode is OK
> (bug doesn't show up)
>
> Ethereal 0.10.10 RPMs for i386 (Fedora Core 3) mode are OK (bug doesn't
> show up)
>
> => bug is specific to the x86_64 version of 0.10.10 realease.
>
> Bug does occur only when doing synchronous capture.
>
>
>
> Gnu debugger analysis :
>
> Bug seems to occur when ethereal rebuilds the graphical interface,
> probably in the menu rebuilding
> process (gtk/menu.c), seemingly in walk_menu_tree_for_selected_tree_row
> recursive calls.
>
> During this process, it seems that the stack is overwriten 3/5 layers up.
>
> Regular backtrace seem to show that it occurs when creating the menu
> "/Statistics/Service Response Time/ONC-RPC...."
>
> This part is quite difficult to understand with the debugger.
>
> I need help.
>
> Thank you
>
> Pierre JUHEN
>
>
>
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