I'm facing a problem on my development server (Ubuntu 16.04 hosted on VMWARE) when trying to compile Wireshark. It was working with older versions (2.0 for example), but now it's like the compilation will never end.
I installed/updated all the required packages, since version 2.6 seems quite different.
I'm doing an strace -f -o to find out what could be wrong, but no clue. The strace log being too big, here is how it looks like :
1900 execve("/usr/bin/cmake", ["cmake", "-LH", "../wireshark"], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0
1900 brk(NULL) = 0x2225000
1900 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1900 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1900 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
1900 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=105981, ...}) = 0
...
thousands of lines such as :
1901 open("/proc/537/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/538/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/539/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/540/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/541/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/542/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/543/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
1901 open("/proc/544/status", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
then thousands and thousands of lines such as the following, and it seems it will never end :
1901 open("/proc/882/status", O_RDONLY) = 3
1901 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
1901 read(3, "Name:\tvmhgfs-fuse\nUmask:\t0000\nSt"..., 1024) = 1024
1901 read(3, "0000,00000000,00000000,00000000,"..., 1024) = 263
1901 read(3, "", 1024) = 0
1901 close(3) = 0
1901 open("/proc/965/status", O_RDONLY) = 3
1901 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
1901 read(3, "Name:\tsystemd-logind\nUmask:\t0022"..., 1024) = 1024
1901 read(3, "0000000,00000000,00000000,000000"..., 1024) = 269
1901 read(3, "", 1024) = 0
1901 close(3) = 0
1901 open("/proc/968/status", O_RDONLY) = 3
1901 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
1901 read(3, "Name:\tdbus-daemon\nUmask:\t0022\nSt"..., 1024) = 1024
1901 read(3, "00,00000000,00000000,00000000,00"..., 1024) = 283
1901 read(3, "", 1024) = 0
1901 close(3) = 0
