Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] type 'xpm' is not supported

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

ebay2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Newbie here with ethereal core dump on startup (core, pkgs, error below).
>
>Q: XPM is font related? 
>Should I do the gtk tutorial, 
>try redhat,
>try subversion or just pay someone to do this?
>
>Can anyone help me please...
>-jim pruett (sorry my email provider drops my subjects!)
>
>----------error-------------------------------
>(ethereal:6338): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image 
>type 'xpm' is not supported
>
>(ethereal:6338): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 
>gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask_for_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF 
>(pixbuf)' failed
>
>(ethereal:6338): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_image_set_from_pixmap: assertion `pixmap 
>== NULL || GDK_IS_PIXMAP (pixmap)' failed
>
>(ethereal:6338): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image 
>type 'xpm' is not supported
>
>** ERROR **: file toolbar.c: line 255 (ethereal_stock_icons): assertion 
>failed: (pixbuf)
>aborting...
>  
>
Some background:

xpm is the image format used by Ethereal to store graphics (toolbar
icons etc.).

GDK uses the pixbuf loaders to load the graphics, and the one used for
xpm seems to be missing?!?

It's the first time I hear about such problems, so it's almost certainly
a problem with your machines configuration.

As I'm no unix/Linux expert, I can't give you any advise how to solve
this, sorry.

Regards, ULFL