Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] problem with 'live' captures and latest CVS.

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From: "Paul Wagland" <pwagland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:02:57 +0200
Hi all,

(you will probably get sick of me soon :)

I have come across another problem with the latest CVS build. When I try to
view the packets as they are captured, ethereal falls in a heap. This is
easily reproducible in my environment. This one only started happening
today.

Before I start trying to trace the problem, has anyone else seen this
problem? Would anyone have a suggestion on where to start looking?

Till later,
Paul

This is the stacktrace (from gdb) (just in case it helps someone...):
---
#0  wtap_dispatch_cb (user=0x817a120 "x#\037\b\b", phdr=0x81f50d4,
offset=40,
    buf=0x81f3ba0 "\b") at file.c:666
#1  0x80da277 in wtap_loop (wth=0x81f50c0, count=24,
    callback=0x80d2420 <wtap_dispatch_cb>, user=0x817a120 "x#\037\b\b",
    err=0xbffff388) at wtap.c:211
#2  0x80d1f79 in continue_tail_cap_file (cf=0x817a120, to_read=24)
    at file.c:423
#3  0x80d0684 in cap_file_input_cb (data=0x817a120, source=7,
    condition=GDK_INPUT_READ) at capture.c:485
#4  0x40162d2b in gdk_io_invoke (source=0x81c0708, condition=G_IO_IN,
    data=0x81f51b0) at gdkevents.c:882
#5  0x40193e3a in g_io_unix_dispatch (source_data=0x81bd718,
    current_time=0xbffff56c, user_data=0x81f51b0) at giounix.c:135
#6  0x40195673 in g_main_dispatch (current_time=0xbffff56c) at gmain.c:656
#7  0x40195cab in g_main_iterate (block=1, dispatch=1) at gmain.c:874
#8  0x40195e61 in g_main_run (loop=0x81ef9d8) at gmain.c:932
#9  0x400b0beb in gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:476
#10 0x80ef45f in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff744) at main.c:1562