Hi Chris,
From the top of my head there's an environment variable which can be set on running glib based apps that cause these apps to stop when they hit these. Running in a debugger allows you to to backtrace to the source.
Thanks,
Jaap
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On 2 okt. 2010, at 21:39, Chris Maynard <Chris.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephen Fisher <steve@...> writes:
>> Do you have a different version installed on the system while you're
>> trying to run from the build directory? I've run into problems in the
>> past with that.
>>
>
> Yes, an older version was already installed, 1.0.5. I removed it and did some
> minor cleanup and was then able to run tshark from the build directory. Before
> I removed it, libtool showed the libraries linked as those in /usr/local/lib/
> rather than in <build_dir>/.libs/, so that definitely was the problem, although
> I find it a bit strange that it works during the build process (with 1.4.0 at
> least) without having to uninstall the older version. That happens when "tshark
> -G" is run to generate wireshark-filter.pod, as in:
>
> WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1 ../tshark -G fields | \
> /usr/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./wireshark-filter.pod.template >
> wireshark-filter.pod
>
> Anyway, thanks for your help on this one. One problem solved. Now to try to
> figure out why I'm getting 23145 occurrences of the following GLib error when I
> try to run tshark:
>
> (process:19019): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_string_insert_c: assertion `pos <= string->
> len' failed
>
> I've been seeing these errors for a long time now on this system (which is why
> it was still running 1.0.5), but I hadn't dug deep enough yet to try to figure
> out why and how to eliminate them. Any ideas on tracking this one down too
> would be greatly appreciated. Is it possibly a glib version problem? This
> system is running with glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6. I can't seem to find where the
> minimum glib version requirement for wireshark is mentioned.
>
>
>
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