Moheed Moheed Ahmad wrote:
My system mets serious crashes while running tshark using display
filters and goes to *KGDB.*
Then there's probably a bug either in the kernel or in some kernel
loadable module. I'd suggest reporting this to MontaVista.
It's possible, but *EXTREMELY* unlikely, that TShark is doing something
as root that can cause a crash that it couldn't do if not running as
root. It's *FAR* more likely that the crash is just due to a bug in
some kernel-mode code.
a) I was running tshark (version 0.99.6) as a root
If you run TShark 1.0, it doesn't run as root - instead, it runs dumpcap
to do the capturing, and, while dumpcap does have to *start* running as
root on Linux (and should be set-UID to root on Linux), it runs as root
as little as possible. Try installing 1.0 and *not* running as root; if
you still have crashes, report them to MontaVista.
