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Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] 0.10.6 startup bug

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From: Richard A Painter <painter@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:27:08 -0600
platform: windows 98
ethereal version: 0.10.6
location: http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/ethereal-setup-0.10.6.exe

just after startup the message box indicating it is "registering disectors" it gets the following fault. this happens every time. reinstalling the package makes no difference.

ETHEREAL caused an invalid page fault in
module LIBGLIB-2.0-0.DLL at 016f:0054ac32.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=0054ac32 EFLGS=00010297
EBX=0174f130 SS=0177 ESP=015df10c EBP=015df464
ECX=ffffffff DS=0177 ESI=00000000 FS=61ef
EDX=0174f0f0 ES=0177 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f2 ae f7 d1 49 89 8d e8 fc ff ff eb 0a c7 85 e8
Stack dump:
0174f130 01ea98d8 0000000b 0054a5ee 015df96c 015df174 015df174 015df178 01007325 2d465455 e7ffffff 00000000 00000000 823304dc 00000000 00000003
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