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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Mac OS X Snow Leopard Wireshark 1.2.6 Crash at Startup (EX

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:19:37 -0700
On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:09 PM, altan@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I looked at some of the bug reports and it seems a similar issue was 
> identified with an early 1.2 release, but was fixed.  I've redownloaded 
> and installed 1.2.6 just to triple check I'm running that version...

If you're referring to

	https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3969

that was *closed*, but not because we *fixed* anything - the underlying bug is in the fontconfig library, and the workaround is to do

	rm -rf ~/.fontconfig