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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] read error: PacketReceivePacket failed

From: "Ing. Rodrigo Castro" <rodrigocastro@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:26:32 -0300
I had other inconsistent behavior in my system (mostly while web browsing with firefox), and suspected from AVG Free antivirus (its resident process running all the time at about 30% of CPU consumption)
Then, I uninstalled AVG and installed ESET NOD32.
Now Wireshark behaves smoothly and I can't reproduce the error anymore.
Who knows...

Thank you all !

Rodrigo.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's a totally different story, then...
 
Can you take a screenshot of the performance tab in task manager and send it to me privately?
 
Have a nice day
GV
 

Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] read error: PacketReceivePacket failed

Sorry I didn´t make this clear before: I can't even start a capture, the error rises as soon as I press Start.

By the way, because the capture gets aborted at the very beggining, a second message windows appears (along with the one that contains the original message reported in this mails);

"
No packets captured!
As no data was captured, closing the temporary capture file!
Help about capturing can be found at:
       http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup
Wireless (Wi-Fi/WLAN):
Try to switch off promiscuous mode in the Capture Options!
"

I do not understand why it suggests to do something with the Wireless interface (which I have turned off) if I am trying to capture with the LAN interface...

This is all I have for now.

Thanks !


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since you can reproduce it consistently, does it happen after having captured for a long time?
 
Have a nice day
GV

Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] read error: PacketReceivePacket failed

Thanks all for the answers.
Gianluca:

> - can you reproduce it consistently?

Yes

> - did it happen after capturing hours and hours?

No

> - if it's a USB network adapter, did you disconnect it?

No

> - did it happen after getting your PC out of hibernation?

No

I also updated the Broadcom 440 NIC Win XP controllers to the latest release, and reproduced the same behavior booting with Dell WinXP Media Center, and also with a WinXP UE.

Regards,
Rodrigo.


Message: 3
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:38 -0800
From: "Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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Well, it can mean everything...

- can you reproduce it consistently?
- did it happen after capturing hours and hours?
- if it's a USB network adapter, did you disconnect it?
- did it happen after getting your PC out of hibernation?

GV


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From: "Guy Harris" <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 1:59 PM
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] read error: PacketReceivePacket failed

>
> On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Ing. Rodrigo Castro wrote:
>
>> Hi all. I am getting the following error:
>>
>> "
>> Error while capturing packets: read error: PacketReceivePacket failed
>> Please report this to the Wireshark developers.
>> (This is not a crash; please do not report it as such.)
>> "
>
> That's an error in WinPcap; you should probably ask the WinPcap developers
> about it:
>
> http://www.winpcap.org/contact.htm
>
> or perhaps Gianluca will respond here.
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PhD Student
Laboratory for System Dynamics and Signal Processing
http://www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/lsd/
Escuela de Ingeniería Electrónica
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
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Ing. Rodrigo Castro
-
PhD Student
Laboratory for System Dynamics and Signal Processing
http://www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/lsd/
Escuela de Ingeniería Electrónica
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
-
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso



--
Ing. Rodrigo Castro
-
PhD Student
Laboratory for System Dynamics and Signal Processing
http://www.fceia.unr.edu.ar/lsd/
Escuela de Ingeniería Electrónica
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
-
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso