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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] squares

From: János Löbb <janos.lobb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:20:43 -0400
On May 25, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> János Löbb wrote:
>> On May 25, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>> 
>>> János Löbb wrote:
>>>> On May 25, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> János Löbb wrote:
>>>>>> On May 25, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> János Löbb wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I downloaded the 1.3.t Development Release dmg, but when I launch it, all text is replaced with squares.   I looked the FAQs but see nothing there.  My machine is an Intel Mac with 4 GB memory the OS is OS X 10.6.3.  I did not have this problem with 1.2.6 or with 1.2.8.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Any good hint ?
>>>>>>> What SVN version did you pick up?  According to bug 4697 (which had the 
>>>>>>> same complaint) this should be fixed in revisions 32751 or later.
>>>>>> I used the dmg from the Downloads section from www.wireshark.org.  It is 1.3.5.  Sorry for the mistype above.
>>>>> The fix for that bug just missed 1.3.5 .  You'll need to either use an 
>>>>> buildbot build:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/
>>>>> 
>>>>> or manually apply the fix from bug 4697 (basically: edit 
>>>>> $HOME/.wireshark-etc/pangorc and remove the quotes from the ModuleFiles 
>>>>> and AliasFiles lines).
>>>> There are no quotes there:
>>>> bml0028:.wireshark-etc janos$ cat pangorc
>>>> [Pango]
>>>> ModuleFiles=${HOME}/.wireshark-etc/pango.modules
>>>> [PangoX]
>>>> AliasFiles=${HOME}/.wireshark-etc/pangox.aliases
>>> Oh, you probably need to change "${HOME}" to whatever your home 
>>> directory is (probably "/Users/yourname/")--without the quotes, of course.
>> 
>> I still do not see quotes:
>> 
>> bml0028:~ janos$ cd $HOME
>> bml0028:~ janos$ pwd
>> /Users/janos
>> bml0028:~ janos$ cat .wireshark-etc/pangorc 
>> [Pango]
>> ModuleFiles=/Users/janos/.wireshark-etc/pango.modules
>> [PangoX]
>> AliasFiles=/Users/janos/.wireshark-etc/pangox.aliases
> 
> Did you modify 
> /Applications/Wireshark/Contents/Resources/etc/pango/pangorc as Kevin 
> suggested?
> 
> (In other words: does the above setting remain after starting Wireshark?)

I did not  modify.  I checked, it is with the @HOME there too, WITHOUT the quotes.  Something else is playing additionally,.. thinking me.

In the meantime I fell back to 1.3.4 and that works great, although I have not tried bigger than 75MB files.

Thanks,

János