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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] master branch of Wireshark/tshark hangs

From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 16:24:06 +0200
It could be a bug in the Qt GUI component of Wireshark. Is it possible
to attach a debugger to "wireshark" or "dumpcap" and obtain a symbolized
stack trace?

Kind regards,
Peter

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Remy Leone wrote:
> I'm not sure about where to start investigating this issue. Where does the
> critical operation happen when wireshark/tshark is sniffing? I suppose that
> this is a problem of blocking read/write that is not happening properly but
> I'm not sure about how to get started to investigate this.
> 
> 2017-05-23 10:35 GMT+02:00 Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > You could inspect the bug database, but as far as I know this is not a
> > known issue.
> > Your setup seems rather normal, so that should not be cause for any
> > problems.
> > If you could investigate further into tun / named pipe capture behaviour
> > that could be interesting.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jaap
> >
> >
> > > On 23 May 2017, at 09:27, Remy Leone <remy.leone@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've stumbled upon the following problem with master branch of
> > Wireshark: After a while (around 10 minutes) Wireshark (master) hangs when
> > it's sniffing on a tun interface or a named pipe.
> > > On the other side, when I use the last stable version of Wireshark
> > (2.2.6) I can sniff on the same interface or named pipe without troubles
> > for a long time.
> > >
> > > Was there any change lately that would have caused that? I got the
> > stable version of Wireshark installed through ubuntu repository/ppa. My
> > user id also belongs to the wireshark group and I can sniff without root
> > priviledges. Could the hanging be caused by that? Is that a classical
> > problem?
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > R�my