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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Custom dissector causing wireshark to crash

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:11:22 -0700

On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:09 PM, wsgd wrote:

When you start wireshark with a capture file ?
If there is no capture file (or capture), the problem does not come from
the packet or the dissect function.

...which means it probably comes from one of the dissector's registration functions (which are called when Wireshark or TShark starts up).