Several people including me have reported on the linuxquestions.org
Slackware forum that Wireshark-2.0 crashes (segfault) at startup.
The Qt UI version of Wireshark-2.0.0 will crash on startup for us, every
time. We have different hardware, including both 32 and 64 bit systems. All
of us are using Slackware Linux, but some have the stable Slackware-14.1,
and some are using "Slackware Current" which has more up-to-date packages.
My version of Qt is 4.8.7, but others report the crash with Qt5. The crash
is immediate, with nothing displayed. Even "wireshark --help" crashes.
Wireshark-1.12.8 works fine on these systems, both Gtk+ and Qt UIs.
Wireshark-2.0.0 with the Gtk+3 UI works also.
Wireshark-2.0.0 with Qt always crashes. Below is a gdb traceback.
Are there any ideas of what we can try?
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
QList (l=..., this=0x864f940 <colors_>)
at /usr/lib/qt/include/QtCore/qlist.h:122
122 inline QList(const QList<T> &l) : d(l.d) { d->ref.ref(); if
(!d->sharable) detach_helper(); }
(gdb) bt full
#0 QList (l=..., this=0x864f940 <colors_>)
at /usr/lib/qt/include/QtCore/qlist.h:122
No locals.
#1 __static_initialization_and_destruction_0 (__initialize_p=1,
__priority=65535) at io_graph_dialog.cpp:82
No locals.
#2 _GLOBAL__sub_I_colors_ () at io_graph_dialog.cpp:2319
No locals.
#3 0x083a31fd in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x08073668 in _init ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
