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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Systematic crash at startup when launching Wireshark GTK+ 1.

From: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:11:14 +0200
Hi,

Any news ? because i have the same issue... :-/

Regards,

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-09-16 8:24 GMT+02:00 Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Den 16 sep 2014 08:00 skrev "Pascal Quantin" <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 15 sept. 2014 23:13, "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On 9/15/14 10:51 AM, Gerald Combs wrote:
>>> > > On 9/15/14 10:02 AM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> It explains why it works fine with 1.12.0 then... And why I could not
>>> > >> figure out a major difference in main.c file explaining the behavior
>>> > >> while using the same libraries!
>>> > >
>>> > > If I build a package from g0a24908 (the commit prior to the GTK+
>>> > > package
>>> > > upgrade) Wireshark-gtk.exe starts up OK.
>>> >
>>> > I created a GTK+ bundle using the current OBS packages (GTK+ 2.24.23 +
>>> > GLib 2.40.0) but Wireshark-gtk still crashes on Windows 8. We might have
>>> > to revert back to the GTK+ 2.14 bundle or to Visual C++ 2010 in master.
>>>
>>> If we have no other choice I would prefer downgrading the GTK+ package as
>>> it will become obsolete with time. And I would not have to reinstall a
>>> MSVC2010 build environment... But I'm probably selfish ;)
>>
>> Upgrading to this package solved a severe memory leak with windows server
>> and RDP, I think.
>> Not sure what the best of two evils are...
> I think testing GTK+ 3.14 would worth a try when it is out. The
> default theme will be changed to Adwaita so Wireshark on Windows and
> OS X would become nice for free*:
> https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/06/13/a-new-default-theme-for-gtk/
>
> Cheers,
> Balint
>
> * OK, not for free, but for cheap. :-)
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