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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5728] New: Wireshark crashes on startup (segmentation faul

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:08:21 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5728

           Summary: Wireshark crashes on startup (segmentation fault)
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: 1.4.3
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Gentoo
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: Low
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: chlu9119@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Build Information:
wireshark 1.4.3

Copyright 1998-2011 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 2.22.1, with GLib 2.26.1, with libpcap 1.1.1, with
libz 1.2.3, with POSIX capabilities (Linux), with libpcre (version unknown),
without SMI, without c-ares, without ADNS, without Lua, with Python, with
GnuTLS
2.10.4, without Gcrypt, without Kerberos, without GeoIP, without PortAudio,
without AirPcap.

Running on Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r5, with libpcap version 1.1.1, with libz 1.2.3,
GnuTLS 2.10.4.

Built using gcc 4.4.4.

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Wireshark crashes on startup, exits with message segmentation fault. Debugging
output from gdb:

Starting program: /usr/bin/wireshark 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff1b6811b in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
#0  0x00007ffff1b6811b in PyObject_Call () from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
#1  0x00007ffff1bf5e03 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords ()
   from /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
#2  0x00007ffff5fe9031 in register_all_py_protocols_func ()
   from /usr/lib64/libwireshark.so.0
#3  0x00007ffff5866d7e in proto_init () from /usr/lib64/libwireshark.so.0
#4  0x00007ffff584ae20 in epan_init () from /usr/lib64/libwireshark.so.0
#5  0x000000000044c501 in main ()

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